canary seed

Historical Examples

• "I will take him a large bag of canary-seed," replied this good man.

  The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; The Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace

  Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick

• The weaver-birds of Africa are mostly quite hardy and very easily kept, their food consisting, for the most part, of canary-seed.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1

  Various

• White mice will eat nuts of all kinds, canary-seed, and various other grains.

  Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880

  Various

• As a treat, a little crushed hempseed or summer cabbage-seed may be mixed with the canary-seed.

  The Illustrated London Reading Book

  Various

• Indeed a mixture of summer rape-seed, oatmeal and millet, or canary-seed, may be given them as a great treat.

  The Natural History of Cage Birds

  J. M. Bechstein