It is stated, says am English paper, on the; authority o£’ W. H. Shrubsole,.F. G. S.,‘ of; Sheerness, that a canary bird, belonging to a shepherd named. Mungeam, living ,atj Scrapsgate, near Sheerness, is able to utter words and sentences so as to be_ readily understood. . Sometimes the bird interpolates phrases in the middle of a song, but it is heard to better advantage when it speaks, as it often does, without singing. So far as can be ascertained, there is no record of a similar ornithological accomplishment..
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6501, 16 February 1882, Page 3
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