CHAPTER XXIII. 



THE AMADAVATS AND THE MUNIAS. 



FROM "Amidavad," the learned Dr. Fryer tells us, 

 come small 

 birds, "spot- 

 ted with red 

 and white 

 no b i gger 

 than mea- 

 sles," of 

 which " fifty 

 in a cage" 

 make an ad- 

 m i r able 

 chorus. That 

 was more 

 than two 

 hundred 

 years ago. 

 I do not 

 know whe- 

 ther they still 

 come from 

 Ahmedabad, 

 but the name 

 has stuck to 



them and they still come, more than " fifty in a cage " 

 sometimes, to people our aviaries. They need no 

 description, for everybody knows them. They arc 





W kite-backed and Brown M 



