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sand-baths, he places a quantity of 

 brick- dust in it. 



Amidst all these comforts, the bird 

 grows very tame, and comes to know its 

 master, before whom it is seldom bashful. 

 At the sound of his fingers, it stands up, and 

 puffing out its feathers, looks up with a 

 knowing wink. Sometimes, it becomes so 

 tame that its owner leaves the cao^e-door 

 open, allowing the bird to walk around him. 

 Grains and few insects with Satoo are 

 given as its food in India. But in England, 

 an immensely varied diet is prescribed — a 

 mixture of canary-seed, some meal-worms, 

 smooth caterpillars or spiders, fresh clovery 

 turf and some fresh and chopped lettuce, — 

 reo^ard beino; had to the kind of food it 

 gets in nature. 



In India, Larks are kept singly and 

 never in pairs ; so that there is no instance 

 on record of the bird breeding in captivity. 

 In Eno^land, where Aviculture is reofarded 

 as a handmaid of Ornithology, many an 

 honest attempt has been made to induce 



