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Diet : Ripe fruit ad lib., insectile food, live insects, and 

 a little boiled milk sop. Sweet water grapes they are specially 

 fond of. 



For the aviary this species, and in fact all the Hangnests, 

 are most desirable and beautiful inmates, while their fearless and 

 confiding demeanour soon endear them to their owner. At the 

 same time they should not be associated with smaller or weaker 

 species. As cage birds they are unrivalled whether kept singly 

 or in pairs. To illustrate my point, there is in the Western 



Photo by E. O. Page. 

 Eggs of Yellow Hangnest. 



Aviary at the present time a specimen of the Brazilian Hangnest, 

 so tame and fearless that the difficulty is to get rid of it: it will 

 enter your pocket, lie on its back in your hand, hang from your 

 finger, in fact, to sum up you can handle it as you please and it 

 appears to enjoy it. There is also in same enclosure a specimen 

 of the Yellow or Golden-crowned Hangnest, which is equally 

 tame and simply crawls over you, but this individual will not 

 permit you to handle it. The above two instances are not by any 

 means isolated ones as the following article by Mrs. Vernon 

 amply demonstrates. If confined in a cage it should not be less 

 than 2ft. by lift, by lift, high ; it will also help to keep them fit 

 if thev can be indulged with a flv round the room occasionally. 



