Sonic Taiiagcrs I iunc kept 
species, as habits and characteristics are so similar that to do 
so would bt to repeat oneself without end. 
( )f this yroup I have kept (out ot doors during;' sunnner- 
time only) Superb, Tricolour, Emerald-spotted, Festive, 
Black-cheeked, Black-backed (Copper-headed), and Paradise; 
under the conditions t^iven earlier in this paper, viz : out of 
doors in a wilderness aviary from May to ( )ctol)er inclusive, and 
ill an indoor flight or cage during the cold months, Xovemher 
tf) April inclusive. 
They were not put out till in a Ih condition, and while 
out of doors in the widerness flight captured all the live insect 
food they recpiired. Their diet consisted of ripe fruit ad lib. 
insectile mixture, and milk-sop: some do not give the latter, but 
I am a hrm believer in it and have been very successful in 
keeping this group, though I have not succeeded in breeding 
any species of C'allistc; in many cases I have only had males, 
and when I had both sexes I found the females out of 
condition when the breeding season started, and the season was 
usually pretty well advanced before they were in breeding 
condition, when the result never went farther than a nest; not 
once did 1 succeed in getting eggs, nor do I call to mind 
anyone else having done so. 
( )f course, wliile tanagers, generally speaking, have 
proved amiable in my aviaries, and at one time I had half a 
dozen (males only) in the same aviary, I never attempted to 
put tzco pairs of Callistc into the same aviary, nor a pair with 
odd males. 1 have ke])t a pair of Tanagra and a pair of Callisic 
Tanagers in the same aviary, with a crowd of other birds, 
without mishap, l:»ut never attempted so to keep tzco pairs of tJic 
siinic gouts. 
()f the pictorial effect of these tanagers in a \vilderness 
;i\ iary there can only be one opinion- -they are superb ! To see 
tbem in the sunshine amid the foliage is too line for words. 
Anfl to observe them now perched on a >pray and again flying 
t'j and fro like flashing jewels is a sight never to be forgotten 
and of which those who keep their l)irds in cages or flights in a 
birdroom can have no idea, though they are things of beauty 
there. 
