JAVA SPARROW. H3 



Canary-bird; and must be well supplied 

 with water and gravel, and kept in a very 

 warm room during winter. It requires a 

 very large and high cage. 



CHAPTER V. 



JAVA SPARROW. Fringilla . 



This prettily marked Grosbeak, so com- 

 mon as a cage-bird in this country, is a 

 native of the East Indies and the Spice 

 Isles, from whence it is brought, with 

 many others of the same species, by ves- 

 sels in the China trade. 



In the cage it is one of the most 

 quarrelsome of birds, and it frequently 

 occurs, that when a half dozen or more of 

 them are kept together, they will fight 

 until the whole, or a greater portion of the 

 combatants, are dead. 



