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I do think that it would make me very happy to have a dear little bird, that would know me, and turn his bright, black eyes up to me, like Mary Day's little canary.
In Italy, therefore, we find the first tame canaries, and here they are still reared in great numbers.
The canary in the green cage that hung in the window put its head on one side and tweaked a seed husk out into Philip's face, then twittered defiantly.
Then presently some of the birds fell to noise making just as you will hear canaries sing when some one whistles, or women talk when a piano commences to play.
There were all sorts of birds here, those tiny birds from the African coast one sees in the shops of the Riviera, canaries and parrots.
On the other hand, our repeated attempts to infect quails, chickens and canaries with raptor trypanosomes were unsuccessful (data not shown).
My father is gone, now begins the more delicate, more distracted, more hopeless noise led by the voices of the two canaries.
The poor immunogenicity of viral vectors such as recombinant canary pox will probably see them replaced as replicating viral vectors with greater immunogenicity are identified and characterised.
The cat ate the canary.
Canaries and goldfish are kept in enclosures of some kind, and they are not generally known as "the friend of man".
The miners of old took canaries down into the mines with them to warn of poisonous gases.
That was bad news for the canaries but good news for the miners.
But one thing we do know—and it is that the birds, like the miner's canary, give some indication as to what has happened.
A canary is taken down with the men, and, if carbon dioxide is in the air, the canary at once discloses the fact.
I will quote one particular instance which came before us, that of the disappearing canary in the cage.
The only co-operation that they understand is the kind of co-operation that the cat proffers to the canary.
This is a classic case because, ever since it has been unnecessary to take canaries into mines under these conditions, they have not been taken.
I have bred in my time most small animals, from canaries to carthorses.
The canary has changed but the song remains the same.
Yet, if we take away their feeling of security—even by removing their pet cat or canary—we may do children irreparable harm.
