2IO The Rock-Pipit. 



small mollusca and Crustacea to be found among sea-weed and occasionally seeds, 

 but particularly in winter. 



Swaysland has kept the Rock-Pipit in confinement, and recommends that it 

 should be fed in the same way as a Wood-Lark ; but the food which he advises to 

 be given to all insectivorous birds is in the highest degree unnatural, consisting 

 largely of chopped raw meat, German paste, etc. I have not the least doubt that 

 any of the advertised egg-foods, mixed with bread-crumbs and moistened, would 

 be infinitely more wholesome as a staple food : to this I would add for the present 

 species, cockroaches, mealworms, spiders, centipedes, and caterpillars, as well as 

 small snails. Although most birds do not care for woodlice, it is not improbable 

 that the Rock-Pipit would eat them. 



Being considerably larger than the Meadow-, or Tree-Pipits, it would be 

 necessary to use judgment as to the associates of this species : moreover, as the 

 gentle looking Pipits are even more pugnacious than Wagtails, it would be very 

 unwise to place two males together in the same aviary. Bven one male should 

 be watched at first, for individuals of the family Motacillidct sometimes make things 

 lively for an aviary full of birds twice their own size, and infinitely more powerful 

 than themselves. 



END OF VOLUME ONE. 



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