THE TUTI 



( CARPODACUS ERYTHRINUS ) 



The Finches are a big family of birds. 

 Many of them find their way into man's 

 home. They are all hardy, little, seed- 

 eating birds giving no anxiety to their 

 keeper as regards their food. Cheap as 

 they are, they are as common cage- 

 favourites in this country — specially among 

 poor people, — as in England, where, how- 

 ever, many of the Finches e. g., the 

 Gold- and Bull- Finches possess a good 

 voice and are kept for that reason. India 

 is visited, no doubt, by many species of 

 Gold- and Bull- Finches, but they are 

 different from those obtaining in England, 

 and make no pretensions as choristers. 

 The only individual among our Fringil- 

 line guests, that has a claim to our ad- 

 miration as a song-bird is the Tuti or 

 Hodgson's Rose-Finch known in science 

 as Carpodacus erythrinus roseatus. 



