SONG BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



a brownish white, rather darker at the larger end ; 

 their weight, nine or ten grains. 



In confinement, Bechstein says the Goldcrests 

 are soon accustomed to the nightingales' paste, 

 by throwing amongst it at first flies deprived of 

 their wings or half dead, and at length they will 

 be satisfied with bruised hemp-seed ; but they must 

 have insects occasionally, flies, meal-worms cut 

 small, ants' eggs, &c. : finally, to keep them healthy, 

 their paste should be neither too stiff nor too 

 moist ; and care must be taken to avoid their 

 swallowing rape or camelin seed, which would 

 immediately kill them. 



They will likewise thrive upon a paste made 

 of the crumb of white bread, dried in an oven and 

 powdered : a tea-spoonful of this, with three tea- 

 spoonfuls of hot milk poured over it, and made 

 fresh every day. 



