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to give them sun and air on clear warm 

 days. They require to be fed on rough or 

 unhulled rice, which is kept constantly on 

 hand at our Horticultural Warehouse, and 

 hemp seed occasionally ; or wheat and millet 

 may be fed to them. They are very fond 

 of bathing, and should be kept constantly 

 supplied with a saucer of water. Brown 

 gravel is essential to their health, which may 

 likewise be had at our establishment ; a little 

 cracked corn would occasionally be of ser- 

 vice to them. Care should be taken in the 

 fall season that the proportion of hemp seed 

 be lessened, as all birds have a tendency to 

 become gross at this time, and you rmi great 

 risk of losing your birds. They are very 

 long lived ; there is a specimen in the Phila- 

 delphia Museum, which died at the age of 

 twenty-one years. 



THE SCARLET TANAGER, OR BLACK-MNGED SUM- 

 MER RED BIRD. 



(Tanagra Rubra.) 



This is a magnificent summer resident of 

 our country : breeding from Mississippi to 

 Canada and Nova Scotia, they are some- 

 times obtained when young and kept in con- 

 finement. Their food should be seeds of all 

 kinds sold at our Horticultural Warehouse, 

 and in season whortle, or as they are more 

 commonly styled, huckle berries, cherries, 

 and other fruits, and insects, when they can 



