meet, meet," in a most ludicrous manner. 

 Nuttall, in his excellent "Manual of Orni- 

 thology," gives many other sentences 

 which they repeat in the course of their 

 song during their continuance in a wild 

 state. These, although the fact may ap- 

 pear strange, approximate as closely to 

 the character of this bird's strain of song, 

 as words can imitate; and are usually 

 uttered when flying on the wing near his 

 mate, who is sitting on her nest in some 

 overgrown tussock. "Tom Denny! Tom 

 Denny! come-and-pay-me-the-two-and-six- 

 pence-you've- owed- me- more-than-a-year- 

 and-a-half-ago !" 



They may readily be kept in the cage 

 upon canary-seed alone, or on a mixture 



