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and acrid juices are rendered innocuous, 

 by the then constant heat of the sun. 



Whenever your young birds are fully 

 able to feed and take care of themselves, 

 which circumstance may readily be dis- 

 covered by the want of attention on the 

 part of the parents, or the refusal of the 

 young to be so nourished any longer, they 

 may be taken from the breeding-cage and 

 placed off in another receptacle. Their pro- 

 per food, which should be regularly given 

 them, is a chopped or grated egg, with 

 bread and Indian-meal, with the addition 

 of about oz. of maw, and some ground 

 or bruised rape-seed. When they arrive 

 at the age of six or seven weeks, and 

 their bill becomes hard, they will be able 

 to crack hard seed, which may, however, 

 be kept in their cage before that time 

 arrives. They should then have all the 

 varieties, viz. rape, canary, yellow and 

 hemp-seeds, but well mixed together, given 

 to them, taking at the same time the 

 greatest care that fresh seed be placed in 



