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culty, in good health and song, on stale bread, 

 but not sour, grated up and mixed with a small 

 portion of hard boiled egg, adding occasionally 

 a bit of lettuce or cabbage, and a bit of beef 

 minced fine. I always kept a box, with some 

 hemp seed bruised in a mortar, to eat when he 

 wished. Keep plenty of gravel in the bottom of 

 the cage; they do not wash much. I have seen 

 them dip their head in the water, and no more. 

 The box of sand is their bathing tub. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SEXES. The upper 

 parts of the male are yellowish brown , the lower 

 parts dusky yellow, with lengthened spots of 

 black on the breast, a whitish ring round the eye. 

 The female is smaller in size, destitute of the 

 white ring round the eye, has more spots on the 

 breast, and some on the back, and the breast is 

 much whiter. The feathers on the crown of the 

 male are partly elongated, and can be raised in a 

 crest, at will. 



LOCATION. Found throughout Europe. Par- 

 tially migratory. 



