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the only diet has been seed and greenstuff. Sponge cake has 

 <;ertainly been available, but since there is to-day three parts 

 left of a solitary penny cake which was put into the aviary 

 eight days ago, and since there are several Canaries among the 

 great number of finches in the same compartment, it does not 

 look as though much of this extra had fallen to their lot. 



The other seven perished miserably. 



I gather from the weekly press that people who give egg 

 food are this year much troubled with bad feeders, so we see 

 that while egg won't make a bad mother feed her young, a 

 ^ood one can rear splendid youngsters without it. 



W. Geo. CresweIvIv. 



