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apparont.ly in Mio V(M\v height of l)li.ss, ultimately swallowing 

 it, and tlioii if ho gets others, repeating the performance 

 again and again. He is very fond of a bath, and should have 

 one daily, and in addition to mealworms get ripe fruit (hanana, 

 oi-ange, soft apph', ]K>ar etc.), ,nid inseetil(> mixture — most 

 Tanagers are i'oiid of milk-so]* and I lu'lieve it to Ijo good| 

 for Miem, but they do well without it. The cage should be 

 a. roomy one, as th(\v aic large eaters and get over fat, if the 

 conditions, of their domieih' is not favoura)>Ic to exercise. 



The charm of the vSup(Mb is not contined to being kept 

 in a cage, foi- if he be ideal there, he is glorious in a roomy 

 out-door aviary, as lie (lies to and from the sun lighting up his 

 glittering garment witii indescribable gorgeous beauty. Pro- 

 viding the aviary has a suitable shelter they can be left out 

 of door.s all the year round, and are so kept in many aviaries 

 in the neighbourhood of London. 



In a state of nature Tanagers frequent the tops of tall 

 trees, but descend to feed upon ripe fruit and also to nest. 

 The nests of CaJUsle are open cup -shaped structures, but 

 very few of them ai^pear to have been described. According^ 

 to W. A. Forbes, this species is peculiar to Pernambuco and 

 he writes concerning it: 



" It is a species often seen, too, alive in the Zoological (lardens of 

 " Europe, though no naturalist seems to have yet met with it in a wild 

 " state. It does not appear to be common in Pernambuco, at least I only 

 " met with it twice : once near Macua, were I shot a female out of some 

 " bush capocira, and again at Quipapa, where I saw what I believed was 

 " this species in the virgin forest. The bird, however, was perched at a 

 " great height from the ground on the topmost branch of a large tree, and 

 "only the brilliant orange of the rump was visible. Whilst staying at 

 " Cabo a freshly-shot adult of this bird was brought to me to skin." 



Before closing this somewhat verbose account I had 

 better remark that I do not consider too many species o,f! 

 Tanagers should be kept together in one aviary, but, in any 

 aviary which provides a roomy flight and an almost equally 

 roomy shelter, several (three or four) pairs of different species 

 could be kept along with seed -eaters, and other insectivoi'ous 

 or frugivorous species. Under such conditions they form a 

 spectacle of which the eye never wearies. 



{To he Continueit). 



