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when they have access to it than when restricted to a seed diet.

Preserved yolk of egg, mixed with powdered biscuit, makes a

good soft food for finches.


A plentiful and regular supply of green food, especially in

the summer, is of the greatest importance.


II.—DOVES.


The smaller species appear to do well on canary-seed and

the two kinds of millet, with a few hemp seeds occasionally.

Dari is recommended. And the larger species would be fed much

like fancy pigeons.


III.—SEED-EATING PARROTS AND PARRAKEETS.


The larger Parrots do well on a mixture of canary, hemp,

oats, and crushed maize—but they should have some fruit almost

daily. Boiled maize is an excellent thing, and might be given

once or twice a week—but it is a bother to prepare it, and care

must be taken that it does not turn sour. A piece of biscuit is

good for a change, and so is a very little milk sop.


The smaller Parrots and Parrakeets will live mainly on

canary seed, with some French millet and occasionally a little

hemp or a few oats. They also should have fruit, and plenty of

green food.


IV.—FRUIT OR POEEEN-EATING PARROTS.


Practically, these consist of the Lories and Lorikeets, and

the Hanging Parrots. I have no personal experience of the

Hanging Parrots, but should imagine that they require the same

treatment as Lories


The true Lories (Eos and Lomus') certainly differ in their

feeding from the Lorikeets (Trichoglossus'). Lorikeets will eat

seed much more readily than Lories, and do not require such

very soft food. The principal food for all of these, should be

milk sop, made by pouring boiled milk upon powdered biscuit.

I use Spratt’s fine “ white biscuit meal,” as it saves trouble. For

Lories, the sop should be quite sloppjq and those of the genus

Eos seem to like it especially liquid. For Lorikeets it may be

firmer. It is scarcely needful to say that milk sop must be made

fresh every day, and the pan containing stale sop should be

removed from the aviary—but I have never found it necessary to

make it more than once a day, even in the hottest weather. No

sugar should be added to the sop. Besides sop, these birds

should have fruit daily, and I usually give raw apples—but

bananas and oranges are liked equally well. Many of the Lories



