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about 5in. outside diameter by 2jin. inside and quite 

 2|-in. deep — the hen being scarcely visible while sit- 

 ting. She sat closely on four eggs from Sept. 4th to 

 22nd and then gave up, so I cannot record actual 

 success. 



Food : Canary and white millet with flowering 

 grasses, groundsel, grit, &c., with a few ants' cocoons 

 and a little soft food as a change, whicli with a bath 

 daily will keep them in a perfect state of health. When 

 they have young a branch covered with aphides will be 

 much appreciated and help greatly toward the success- 

 ful rearing of the young. 



It would thus appear that in violence of courtship 

 and separation of sexes (for even if caged together, 

 they simph^ will have nothing to do one with the 

 other, excepting during the breeding season) they 

 resemble our ChafSnch. 



I must also charge them with egg eating, as the 

 aforementioned eggs disappeared, and it was impos- 

 sible for mice to get into their aviary, though I did not 

 catch them ac^o flagranto. 



Hybrids have been produced with the Canary and 

 its Grey coated relative. 



They are enduring, the male has a sweet and 

 fairly sustained song; their movements among the 

 branches are active and interesting, and even with 

 more than the disadvantages enumerated above, are 

 worth a place in ever}^ bird room, where they will be a 

 source of pleasure and interest to their owner. 



