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German. The best food is ants' eggs, to which 

 are daily added two or three meal worms ; when 

 none of the former remain, they must be supplied 

 by dried, or rather roasted, ox heart and raw car- 

 rot, both grated and then mixed with dried ants' 

 eggs. A little lean beef or mutton may be used 

 sometimes.* 



English. White bread soaked in boiled milk, 

 mashed into a paste, with ground hemp seed 

 scalded, and meal-worms once or twice a day, 

 and a small quantity of the hard-boiled yolk of 

 an egg, or bread and milk, meal-worms, or ants' 

 eggs, or maggots, with boiled vegetables and 

 pudding, of which they are very fond.f 



American. The Nightingales now in Boston 

 are fed upon Indian meal and milk, meal-worms 

 and ants' eggs, and are doing well. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SEXES. The Nightin- 

 gale is scarcely as large as a common sized Canary 

 bird, and of plain and homely colored plumage. 

 The male has the upper parts of a yellowish brown, 

 reddish towards the head ; the primaries or main 

 feathers of the wings are darker, and towards the 

 tail a chestnut color ; the lower parts, on the throat 



* Bechstein. 



t Timbs's Manual of Cage Birds. 



