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Brif/'s]) Corridae. 
Cleanliness in the aviary also, is a rule to be maintained if 
you wish for strong, healthy 'birds. I have kept many A arietie-; 
of birds, but I think my c'hoiee foi- pets lies among the Crow 
tribe. I give below a list of luod require(l by tlu' difVereut 
varietie.s I have mentioned. 
Baven: Staple food, meat, raAv and cooked, table sei'aps, cheese, 
soaked pui)py biscuits. 
Carrion Crow : Staple food, meat, raw, and table scraps. 
Hooded Crow : Meat, raw and cooked, rats, aiid table scraps. 
Eook : Table sci'aps, juippy biscuits, cheese, milk sop. 
Jackdaw : The same as the Rook. 
Magpie : Meat, raw and cooked, pujijjy liiscuits, pastry, etc. 
Jay : Chopped hard-boiled eggs, insect food, milk sop. 
Chough : The same as Jays. 
Nutci'acker : Meaty mutton l)one (cooki'd), nuts. 
For I'eai'ing from the lu'st, I gave only bread and milk and 
toppings, until the birds M^ei-e old enough to pick up 
and digest the sti'onger food. 
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Birds In and About the Station (Bakloh, Punjab). 
By Major C. A. Ferrkau, F.Z.S. 
( Ciintiiined fvdiii \'<il. I'.. N.S., piirfe. 204). 
Flycatchers: The Verditer Flycatcher (Slojinroia mel- 
atiops) is a lovely little bird, well known to English avicultui ists, 
as it is fairly commonly imported, for an insectivorous bird. 
It is one of the easiest of the Flycatchers to keep. My friend 
(Mr. N. F. Cockell) had young hatch in his Calcutta aviary 
but I forgot to ask him details as to the nest. Ic is very 
common a little higher up in the hot weather, breeding fi'om 
0,000 to 9,000 feet, generally in a hole in the Ijauk on the 
khud side of a road, sometimes only a few feet up. I have 
known of nests in the eaves of houses. The eggs are pinky 
white, four to the clutch. One lot I saw had a beautiful' 
smokj pink ring near the big end. I was tempted to take 
them, and might just as well have done so as a big storm a 
few days afterwards brought down the bank the nest was In. 
