A moderate yellow with a greenish tinge

Usage examples of canary.

Pippinella, the green canary--half canary, half greenfinch--whom Doctor Dolittle had bought from a pet shop, and how she became the prima donna of his opera company.

House 9 The Old Windmill PART TWO 1 The Green Canary Learns to Fly 2 Nippit, the Greenfinch 3 Ebony Island 4 Pippinella Finds a Clue 5 The Window-Cleaner at Last!

Adventures 7 The Ragged Tramp PART THREE 1 The Canary Opera 2 The Green Parrot has a Clue 3 Cheapside Helps the Doctor 4 John Dolittle, M.

The Window-Cleaner Tells his Name 6 The Search for the Missing Papers 7 The Secret Hiding Place 8 The Thief Escapes 9 The Runaway Coach 10 The Papers Recovered--and Puddleby Again FOREWORD When my husband, Hugh Lofting, wrote and illustrated this story of Pippinella, the green canary, for the New York Herald Tribune his intention was some day to publish the material in book form.

JOSEPHINE LOFTING PART ONE I THE DOCTOR MEETS THE GREEN CANARY THIS story of the further adventures of Pippinella, the green CANARY, begins during the time of the Dolittle Circus.

Now, what can a canary know about food--eating nothing but dried-up seeds and bread-crumbs?

THE INN OF THE SEVEN SEAS AFTER a short pause in which the green canary seemed to be lost in thought she continued her story.

I was surely the only canary who ever had been decorated for distinguished conduct under fire and that any regiment ought to be proud to claim me as a mascot.

You know a canary is a somewhat smaller creature than a human being, but his life and what happens in it are just as important for him.

I suppose I ought to have felt very proud, for it was a tremendous sum for a canary to cost.

I often thought afterwards of those poor wretches toiling away underground and wondered how the other canary got along who took my place.

And then the other canary, the funny little squeaker to whom I was supposed to give singing lessons, he had been on the ship quite a number of voyages, and he, too, gave me a lot of information.

And, for want of something better to do--also to keep my mind off my own troubles--I went on giving the other canary singing lessons.

If his claim to the canary should be just, possibly the bird will know him.

While the canary sang the beautiful and sad love story of the greenfinch, with the Doctor writing it all down in his notebook, the idea for a canary Opera came to John Dolittle.