330 
Fuuds [or Vuriouis ('u<J(' Birda. 
(yciuary, white millet, ludiau millet, siiray 
millet, and a pinch ot a gooti Fineli mixture 
such as Capern's, put on the tlctor of llie cage 
daily, the usual yreen i'ooil antl a couple of 
mealworms, spiders or smooth caterpillars when 
they can be obtainetL 
Indian millet, white millet, canary, spray 
millet, finch mixture and usual green food. 
Hooded Siskin, 
Nonpareil, 
Kainbow, and 
Pileated Bunt- 
ings : Scaly- 
crowned 
Weaver bird. 
Laventler- 
backed Finch 
( Spcviiiophilu custaneircntris). 
SOFT BILLS. 
The soft food mixture 1 use is made of Osborn biscuit 
2h oz. Melox dog biscuit 2 oz. Ants eggs ^ oz. Silk worm 
cocoori 5 oz. These ingredients are mixed together and put 
through a cotfee grinding mill, the yolks of 2 hard boiled 
eggs are rubbed in, h oz. more ants' eggs added and the whole 
throughly well mixed. I find this quantity is sulficient for 
0 birds about the size of a Sliama for a week. It is made 
up fresh every week: when given to the birds it is made 
crumbly moist with boiling water. 1 do not use dried files, 
1 find the birds do better without them. 
Shama, Ruby- 
throated Intlian 
Warbler, 
Ticket's and 
Verditer 
Flycatchers. 
Sujjerb 
Tanager. 
Festive 
Tanager. 
Soft food mixture and about (l mealworms a 
day, with spitlers or any other small insects that 
can be obtained. 
Sponge cake soaked in Nestle's milk made with 
boiling water, and sciueezed out so as to be just 
crumbly, grapes, banana, apple, and 2 or 3 meal- 
worms every day, orange twice a week. 
Orange (quite sweet), grapes, apple, sponge cake 
as above, a pinch of soft food mixture, and a 
couj)le of meal worms. I also give a banarja, 
but they do not seem to care much for it. 
Striated 
Tanager 
Sponge cake as for Superb, banana, grapes 
mealworms (3j, and orange every other day. 
