Bullfinch and Canary

Abstract

THAT a bullfinch can be trained to pipe a whole tune, or more, to perfection, that is to say, do it, so far as intonation and rhythm are concerned, as well as any skilled musician, everybody knows. It is also a fact, though perhaps less common, that a canary, placed in an adjoining room and hearing the tune of such a piping bullfinch over and over again, may, quite by himself, i.e. without being trained for it, acquire the same accomplishment to the minutest detail.