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with potato and carrot ; also spiders and luealwornis ; is this 

 correct ? The vSuperl) appears especially eas}' to tame and eats 

 out of my hand, quite different to the Violet, Emeralds, and 

 Tricolour. A. Aitchison. 



The following reply was sent to Mr. Aitchison : 

 I cannot advise putting the Kmeralds into the aviary so 

 late in the year. Had they been out the greater part of the 

 summer I am of the opinion that they could have been safely 

 left out of doors altogether. My Blue [l^anagra episcopus), 

 Scarlet {Rhamphoccelns btasilius), and Maroon (R. jacapa), are 

 out of doors, and the foggy, raw, wet, and variable weather we 

 have been experiencing of late, has not so far (October 31st) 

 apparently inconvenienced them in the least. At the same 

 time I should not care to turn out at this time of the year, even 

 more robust species than the Emeralds. Your diet is fairly 

 satisfactory, my Tanagers get the following soft food mixture : 

 crumbled sponge cake, dried flies, ants' cocoons, dried pupas, 

 and crushed Osborne biscuits, in equal parts, made just 

 crumbly moist for use, with the addition of ripe fruit and 

 insects. As a change, boiled potato and carrot are added to the 

 soft food mixture. I find most species of Tanagers will eat 

 almost any of our fruits as in season, such as elder berries, soft 

 ripe apple, pear, raspberrj^ strawberry, red currants, cherries, 

 etc., and I consider the change good for them. Why not make 

 a lobby inside 3'our conservatory, so that they could not escape 

 as you entered, cover the ventilators with wire netting, and let 

 the birds fly loose among your plants. I do not think they 

 would interfere with them, other than clearing them of insects, 

 and among tlie foliage the effects of their glowing colours 

 would be very fine. W. T. Page. 



IPost nOortcni IRcports. 



{Vide Rules). 



Cock Wood Warbler (Mrs. E. Warren Vernon). This bird 

 had an enlarged liver, but otherwise was in a good con- 

 dilion. The cause of death was the so-called acute septic 

 fever. 



Cock Parrot Finch (The Hon. M. C. Hawke). Case of death 

 acute septic fever with acute pneumonia. 



Hen Zebra Waxbii.t^ (Mrs. IMiller) Cause of death ]Dneunionia. 



