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The Endurance of Birds. 
menced in Bird Notes of January, 1916, and a list was given of 
the species which the writer had kept at various times — marked 
up to indicate their endurance , under the three headings, viz : 
out of doors all the year round — out of doors spring, summer 
and early autumn only — kept indoors all the year round. And 
it is of the species given in the list, not all species of birds, that 
some indication, by request, as to their readiness to reproduce 
their kind in cai)tivity is also given. 
Alario Finxh (Alarlo alario). Not a brilliantly coloured 
species, but a very pleasing one; the colouration of its plumage 
were it not for its serin-like contour, might cause one to take it 
for a mannikin. 
Adult jnalc. Head, throat, and stripe bordering breast 
and abdomen black; back, wings (excepting flights which are 
black) and tail cinnamon brown ; remainder of underparts white ; 
beak black. 
Alario Finch. 
female. To some extent a washed out replica of the 
male, but lacking entirely his sharp and pleasing contrasts. Her 
