A Knowing Canary.
a -iouNG oanary bad belonging to our family is m the habit of receiving small pieces of bibcuit, cake, or such like from the tea table. The haidness of the biscuit, has always been a source of great annoyance to Dickey. Oa« day he waa offered a piece of hard bisouit. Without making the least attempt to break it he hrted it from the floor of hia oage and taking it to his water tiough, gently dropped it iu, following up the action by patiently stirring u round and round with his beak until it was in a condition to be eaten. He then carefully removed it and devoured it without any trouble, lie now puts every hard substance which he deems eatable into the water. He endeavoured to soften the sweets in the same way, but finding that the sweets became smaller and smaller, ne hastily abstracted it, and has never since put anything of that nature into the water.— Nature.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2030, 11 July 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)
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165A Knowing Canary. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2030, 11 July 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)
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