28 FEATHERED FRIENDS. 



I have said, and would take mealworms from my hand, 

 or small caterpillars, but it did not much care for anything 

 to which it had not been accustomed from the first. I 

 tried it with a portion of a much vaunted " Nightingales' 

 Food", from which it picked out some ants' eggs and 

 scattered the remainder. 



This bird I kept for about three months and then had 

 to part with it in consequence of going from home. It 

 was carefully packed in a little square basket padded and 

 lined inside, and reached its destination (in the North of 

 England) "not in the least the worse for its long jour- 

 ney", which was satisfactory intelligence. 



The scientific name of the Nightingale is Daulias 

 luscinia at "The Zoo", but Philomela everywhere else. 



