74 Favourite Foreign Birds. 



which make a nest of hay, lined with feathers, in any 

 convenient hollow, and lay from three to five white 

 eggs, thickly streaked with blackish-grey. There are 

 two or three broods in the season, and when young 

 ones are in the nest, ants' eggs and soaked bread, 

 with or without milk, must be added to the bill of 

 fare. Habitat, Brazil. 



Attempts to produce mules with the canary have 

 resulted in complete failure. 



THE RED-THROATED SPARROW, or CORAL or 

 RIBBON FINCH, Amadina fasciata (illustrated at 



FIG. 24. THE? RED-THROATED SPARROW. 



Fig. 24), is a well-known species, conspicuous by a red 

 mark across the throat of the male, to which it owes 

 the ominous appellation (Cut-throat) by which it is 

 generally known. 



Food and treatment as in the case of the preceding 

 species. 



THE JAVA SPARROW, Padda oryzivora (illustrated 

 at Fig. 25), is another well-known bird, of which 

 there are two distinct varieties the ordinary leaden- 

 blue and the white, both of which breed quite freely 



