go Bird-keeping. 



trace of the ailment now, and has quite recovered its 

 health and beauty. 



It very much disliked the operation, and would rush 

 about the cage to avoid being caught, uttering shrill 

 notes of anger, and when captured revenged itself by 

 biting the hand in the most vicious manner. I had 

 only to hold up the camel's-hair brush to send the 

 bird, with a squeak, to the furthermost corner of the 

 cage. 



Dr. Karl Russ claims to have been the first amateur 

 who succeeded in rearing these birds in captivity. He 

 received a pair from New York in very bad condition, 

 one with its quill-feathers broken, and, as sometimes 

 occurs with soft-billed birds, the upper mandible bent 

 out of shape, from having been kept in too hot a room. 

 He fed them carefully, with a mixture of egg food, 

 mealworms, and ants' eggs, and a little poppy, hemp, 

 and canary-seed, and they gradually recovered their 

 plumage, and in about six months he was able to turn 

 them into his aviary, the bird with the injured beak 

 being quite well. For some time he feared both were 

 hens, as their plumage showed no distinction of sex, 

 till one evening in the twilight the smaller of the two 

 set up a loud Thrush-like warble, which was after- 

 wards repeated constantly, particularly in the early 

 morning and evening twilight ; and in the month of 

 April they began to build, and after several false 

 beginnings, a real nest was completed in a few days, 



