Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1876 — Training Canaries. [ARTICLE]

Training Canaries.

A gentleman residing at Phoenixville, says' the Reading Eagle, of Queensland, Australia, has several very fine canary birds to which he has given much attention. One of the birds he has taught to sing “Home, Sweet Home,” clearly and distinctly. His mode of instruction is as follows: He placed the canary in a room where it could not hear the singing of other birds, and suspended its cage from the ceiling, so that the bird could see its reflection in a mirror. Beneath the glass be placed a musical box that was regulated to play no other tune but “Home, Sweet Home.” Hearing no sound but this, and believing the music proceeded from the bird he saw in the mirror, the young canary soon began to catch the notes and finally accomplished

what its owner had been laboring to attain, that of singing the song perfectly. This is an experiment easily tried, and one we should be glad to know the result of from some of our own bird fanciers if they make the experiment.