NIGHTINGALE . 



is dried or rather roasted ox-heart and carrot, 

 both grated, and then mixed with dried ants' eggs. 

 A little lean beef or mutton minced small may also 

 be used sometimes. They require fresh water 

 every day, as well for bathing as drinking. 



Mr. Sweet says they will soon take to feed on 

 bruised hemp-seed and bread, if a few insects be 

 stuck on it. The larvae of the cockchaffer or may- 

 bug, which is sometimes very plentiful in grass- 

 fields, may be procured in great abundance, and 

 kept in pots of turfy earth through the winter, 

 giving each bird one or two a day. Common 

 maggots, also, in the larva or pupa state, they are 

 very fond of ; as well as spiders, earwigs, crickets, 

 and various other insects. 



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