THE YELLOW-BILLED CARDINAL. 75 



My Yellow-billed Cardinals never got very tame, but 

 to the last were timid and startled by the mere approach 

 of a human being to their dwelling, while the other 

 Cardinals and the Popes would come and fearlessly 

 take mealworms from between my fingers. 



With the Red-crested Cardinals the Yellow-bills did 

 not get on at all, the former evidently refusing to 

 recognise the relationship between them, but the crest- 

 less Popes were better natured and did not interfere 

 with their smaller brethren, but of course they are of 

 nearer kin to the latter than to the former. 



Very likely had I kept them until the following 

 season and then had turned them out in May, they 

 would have built a nest, but having had them suffi- 

 ciently long to study them, they had to make room 

 for others. 



The scientific name is Paroaria capitata. 



