130 looLocr. 



soon take Iiread and milk, with small pieces of raw iiesh sm\ 

 seeds, mixed together ; this kind will bear confinement well ; 

 they should have plenty of room allotted to them ; and the 

 Aviary should be erected in some shady place, where the 

 birds can at their option, either enjoy sunshine or shade ; 

 could the Aviary be erected with a small running stream 

 passing through it, the birds will the more readily become 

 reconciled to their captive state ; the earth should be occa- 

 sionally turned over with a spade, to afford them an op- 

 portunity of picking out the insects or grubs ; the worms, 

 slugs and caterpillars, abounding in most gardens, will be 

 greedily devoured ; and if occasionally a piece of putrid flesh, 

 or other substance, to which flies resort to deposit their eggs 

 on, was placed within their reach, the maggots hatched from 

 them would be eagerly consumed. 



Birds of prey, and the piscivorous kinds, may soon be 

 rendered tame, by keeping them short of food for some time, 

 these may be fed on most kinds of ofi'al, and other animal 

 substances. 



Upon obtaining any kind of which we have no previous 

 knowledge, our first care should be to learn such parts of its 

 history as may have fallen under the observation of the 

 natives of the country where it is found ; as also to what 

 purposes it is applied ; whether it be noxious to agriculture, 

 or otherwise injurious, and the measures pursued to avoid its 

 injuries : if the flesh, down, feathers, or quills, are used, and 

 if so, whether and how prepared, and for what purposes : 

 its food, nest, eggs, places of resort, also require attention ; 

 to facilitate these enquiries, we have affixed a table of par- 



