Foods for Various Cage Birds. 
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Scnefiiil I'aiTot Canary, sunflower, wliite millet, hemp, paddy 
■Mid Ring-necked rice, fruit, nuts, biscuits, cake and green 
Parrakeet. stuff'. 
White-eared and Canary, white millet, paddy rice, hemp, sun- 
Yellow or Sun tlowei', fruit, nuts, etc., as other Parrots. 
Conures. 
Many-coloured, 
Red- vented and 
Blue-bonnet 
Parrakeets. 
The same as for Conures with white oats 
adeled, but apple, flowering grass, or some green 
stutf is given every day. In summer, flowers, 
such as mignonette, primroses, sweet peas, are 
highly appreciated. 
LORIES AND LORIKEETS. 
Swainson's Bread and milk (bread soaked in boiling water 
Lorikeet. for some time, then s(iueezed dry and Nestle's 
milk made with boiling water poured over it) 
grapes, banana, apple, pear, lettuce, and othe 
green stuff, also seed as for Dusky Parrot is 
given. 
Forsten's The same as above, but this bird took very 
Lorikeet. little seed, and could do without it altogether I 
think. 
The same as the above, but no seed whatever. 
Purple-naped 
and Yellow-backetl 
Lories. 
FINCHES, WAXBILLS, AND BUNTINGS. 
Sydney Waxbill White millet, canary, Indian millet, spray 
& Green Singing millet, green food, flowering grass, lettuce. 
Finch. groundsel, chickweed, apple and grapes. 
Blue-breasted, 
Melba and 
Violet-eared 
Waxbills ; 
Crimson, Painted, 
& Parrot Finches. 
The same as the above, but with the addition 
of a mealworm or two every day or some small 
smooth caterpillars. 
