By Alexander Wetmore
Originally appeared in the December 1938 issue of the National Geographic Magazine

This Web version COPYRIGHT 2004

Images A SAMPAN'S DECK IS FOOK KEE'S BARGAIN COUNTER LIKE A MISPLACED HAYSTACK IS THE SOCIABLE WEAVERS' COMMUNAL HOME BIRDS IN CAGES HANGING ON THE WALLS OF HOUSES BRING SPRINGTIME MELODY TO A PARIS SIDE STREET A WEAVER BIRD DISPLAYS ITS LOOPS AND KNOTS A NATIVE BIRD FANCIERS' CLUB MEETS TO MATCH PETS NO CAGE CONFINES THIS GUARDIAN GOLDFINCH; HE WEARS A HALTER HELD BY A SLACK "REIN" FOR NOVELTY, WINGED WARES CAN'T MATCH THE "BIRDIE" IN THE CAMERA "TAKE HOME A CANARY TO CAROL ON CHRISTMAS AND SING IN THE NEW YEAR" JAZZ TUNES INSPIRE A CANARY CHORUS LITTLE MISS AMERICA WELCOMES BIRDS FROM FOREIGN LANDS

Serin Finch Canary Bullfinch Linnet European Siskin European Goldfinch Strawberry Finch Bengalee Java Sparrow Whydah Red-billed Weaver Orange Weaver Combasou Zebra Finch Diamond Finch Gouldian Finch Nuns (Munias) Bronze Nun Cutthroat Finch Cordon Bleu Zebra Waxbill Common Waxhill Red-crested Cardinal Shama Thrush White-eared Bulbul Myna Red-billed Hill Tit

BIRDS' HUES TUNE UP AN ARTISTS COLOR SENSE At his studios in Paris and Nice, the contemporary French painter, Henri Matisse, keeps cages of feathered pets from many parts of the world. Comparing the fresh, vivid plumage of the birds with some of his paintings, the artist is able to judge the richness of his own chromatic efforts. Visitors to Matisse's studios are sometimes treated to exhibitions of tricks he has taught his charges. Here the painter admires a black-and-orange troupial from South America Photograph Brassai from Black Star

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