Some Tanagers I have kepi. 
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replica of the Blue Tanager, and is a inucli duller coloured bird, 
and consequently not so attractive in the aviary. Yet it is not 
without beauty, and no tanager could be without interest in a 
garden aviary. 
But what 1 have written as to the deportment, character- 
istics, etc., of the Black, Blue, and Scarlet Tanagers, applies 
equally to this species, and I need not repeat it here. 
It is hardy and can be wintered out of doors. 
Lady Edith Douglas-Pennant successfully bred this 
species in her aviaries at Newmarket, and I believe her success 
to be the only one with this species. 
.xow I have quoted sufficient of the hardy group o( 
Tanagers, enough to answer my purpose, but have as yet 
said nothing as to their menu. 
Tliey do not call for very special treatment — in my 
aviaries insectile mixture, milk-sop, and ripe fruit were always 
part of the daily Bill of Fare, and the above tanagers did 
perfectly well thereupon, taking heartily of all three items. I 
did not find them to need insects except when feedng young, 
l)ut in a wilderness aviary not a day passed without their 
catching some files and other insects, but when they had young 
to feed I always saw that they got a fair supply of live food 
two or three times during the day till their offspring were at 
least seven days old, but though this is not so important after 
this stage has been passed the supply should not be suddenly 
cut off. 
Anyone attempting to keep these tanagers in a more 
artificial aviary than that indicated would do well to supply six 
or more mealworms, or other insects per bird, per diem — 
however, once the birds are acclimatised, this is not absolutely 
necessary, though some live-food should certainly be given 
during the period of the moult. 
C.^LLISTl•; Group; These form some of the most 
beautiful of imported tanagers, most of which are about the 
size of a sparrow, and which, for the purposes of this paper, I 
term half-hardy . , 
It will be idle for me to pass these in review, species by 
