CANARIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2604, 10 February 1904, Page 49

CANARIES.

I could not, of course, leave Air Kerr without looking at his canaries, and, ardent enthusiast as he is in thi» fancy, I had not to a->k peiini~?ion I found much the same Kumlwr of biiUe as when I saw the aviary some tv, o or three years back —about iSO ail told — and all the well-known varieties, colour fed and 'ion-colour fed, were in evidence. Beins; tho breeding season. I was shown some dozens of young chicks cf various aget?, from minut"- old io eight weeks, at which latter mature agj I could not dktinf;ui«h them from adult bird..

Those v. ho follow thi^ pretty fancy should seize the first opportunity — Wednesday afteri.ooi finds Mr Kerr at horne — of inspecting this a\ lary. Mr Kerr keope his canaries in single cages, breeding eage-3, and imir»n«o wire enclosures, large enough for a dozen o. so birds to enjoy the sensation, of f;ill flight, end th© methodical way in wliiCi) all is a.rr?nsed and cared for is an object lesson worth =etloing.

— The Dunedin Fanciers' Club Imve nominated Mr J JMande, of Onkleiah. \rietor; i. n3 poultij jiivlge, ana Mi CafforcT Brdmu!; as .lud^e o f dog a io> Ui>ir -ta*on's -iio,-v. Mr Maude h;«= wned Licieptmg th'ofiit e>.