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Bird-keeping. 



placed in an aviary. The young birds may be reared 

 on ants' eggs, and bread soaked in milk, and are very 

 fond of hard-boiled egg, which, mixed with Nightin- 

 gale's paste, should be the food of the adult birds. 



The Yellow Wagtail may be treated in the same 

 manner. It is only a summer visitor to this country, 

 and is known in some parts as the " Oat-seed Bird," 

 because it generally resorts to fields in which oats are 

 grown, on its arrival in England ; but it is wholly an 

 insectivorous bird, and, with its relatives, renders us 

 great service by its destruction of noxious insects. 



