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'V\i(i yoiui;^ y\(;c(;jif,ors ui'c vcvy (!;i»ily rcucfl on soii-kcd hi'r.'.'id 

 and |>of)j)y HCcd in(jist(;n(!d with milk, or liuckwliout flour inado 

 into .'I, piislc. Tlio plumule ol" llio youn;^ l)r(jod is very difl'oront 

 IVoiii tliat of j,li(;ir purunl-H; llio breast be-iiip;' Hi»otii;d with ^fcy 

 and yellow, and the back with hrowJi and. black, while the 

 nostrils and anjj;l(!.s of the niontli are rose-coloured. 



Thei'e is, j)erha[)S, not one of our n;i,tiv(! birds lh;i.t b/eeds 

 RO freely in the aviary as this: the solitiiry feni;i,lo will lay 

 ef^gs Ol' p;i.ir with a eoek llobin, .-ind bnn^ uj) a r;iiiiily (jf 

 mules. 



I onee (;;iu;j,h1, an adult lemale, one of whose win;j^s had 

 been injured, jjiid she soon, withoul, .'Uiy p:irtic,ul;u' iKitiec; (jn 

 III} part, beeann; ho tame, that when I turned her out after 

 Ik r n^eovery from the (dfeets of her aeeident, 1 eould not 

 drive her away from the house: llndin;^ she would not {40 

 away, 1 Jet h(;r do aH whe pleased, and she remained in the 

 lj;:u(h.u for some montlis, eomin^ to tlie kiteheri window every 

 moruin;^ to \)U fed: she disappeared at last, whether kill(;d 

 l>y a cat, oi- inijMilled by th(i desire 1,o make a fn:st, i eannot 

 Hay: I nev(;r Kaw her again. 



Jn tlie matter of dineaHCH I do not know of any in<;i(hintal 

 to thiH species; tliOHO I have kept at different times alwajB 

 seemed very Htnmp; and liealtliy. J{eehstf:in, however, asserts 

 tliat they an;, even when wild, sul^jeet f.o a pustular disorder 

 r(;semblin^ small-pox! If so, 1 have not m(;t with an instance 

 of Kueh a eomjd;j.iiit amon;.', th(;m. 



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rMJliS pretty little bird, wbieb some writei's on ornilholo;^; 

 -L class with the Wrens, is not very eommon in l'in;jl;ind 



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but is suffieiently so in wooded districts, especially jnne u orjds, 



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