THE CANARY AND THF: GRAMOPHONE.
We have heard a good deal lately about the colour-sense in animals. What of their car for music ? A neighbour of mine possesses a canary which lives in the same room as the gramophone, which is much used. To all the many melodies, and things called melodies, that are played the canary turns a deaf car. He pays no more attention than a dog pays to the wireless, even if his master—elver/a crede—is talking on it. But there is just one exception. The moment one particular tune—it has a sort of whistle in it—begins to be played the canary comes to attention and starts singing at his best. The experiment, made before many witnesses, never fails ; the first bars set the canary off on his pare-harmonium stop. There is opportunity for further
experiment in this canary's preference. • . W. BEACH THOMAS.
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