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properly supplied with animal food. Their nest is 

 made of small twigs, lined with hay or grass. They 

 would probably do well in an outdoor aviary, as they 

 are distressed by great heat, and can stand a fair 

 amount of cold. 



The RED-CRESTED CARDINAL (Paroaria cristata 

 or ciicullatd) is a handsome bird, a little larger than the 

 Virginian Nightingale, and comes from South America. 

 The back is dark grey, the quill-feathers of the wings 

 are of a darker shade of the same colour, and the tail 

 is nearly black ; the head, crest, cheeks, and throat are 

 bright red of an orange hue, deepest on the chest, where 

 it ends in a point ; the lower part of the body is greyish- 

 white, and the feet and legs are black ; the strong beak 

 is dusky grey ; the crest is pointed like that of the 

 Virginian Nightingale, and is raised and depressed at 

 pleasure. A margin of white separates the red of the 

 cheeks and breast from the grey of the body, forming 

 a partial collar ; the red joins the grey on the nape of 

 the neck, and a few black feathers mingled with the 

 white give a mottled appearance to the collar. I give 

 the colouring of a young male sent to me from the 

 Zoological Society's Gardens, a very sprightly active 

 bird, singing all day long, or calling " whit, whit." The 

 song was loud, but not very melodious. I was directed 

 to feed him upon canary and hemp-seed, a little green 

 food, lettuce, watercress and chickvveed, with occasional 

 mealworms or insects, and a little scraped raw beef 



