226 FEATHERED FRIENDS. 



It is quite hardy, and the one I had was exceed- 

 ingly gentle and tame ; more, it never screamed, which 

 was, indeed, a blessing. As regards food, it preferred 

 hempseed, but would eat maize, Canary-seed, monkey- 

 nuts and oats: biscuit and fruit, of course, that goes 

 without saying. Sometimes it was allowed a morsel 

 of cake, or of boiled potato, and would eat them, as 

 I suspect it would have done anything else that was 

 offered to it. 



I kept this bird a considerable time and then it had 

 to go, to make room for others, for I had not un 

 limited space at command, and when I bought a new 

 bird, one of the old ones had, necessarily, to give way 

 to it. However, as he fully deserved, "the Butcher" 

 found a comfortable home, but he changed his name, 

 I was given to understand, and was ever afterwards 

 known as "the Doctor"! 



The scientific name of this eminent favourite of mine 

 and of everyone else's who has had the pleasure of 

 his acquaintance is Chrysotis f estiva. 



