Some Finches in my Aviaries. 
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time I supplied her with some Cape Sparrow eggs; these she 
liatched out and fed tlie young for six or seven days, when they 
died, prol)ably from an insufficiency of insect food. 
My Sikhim Siskin (Hypacanthis spinoidcs), mated with a 
cock Goldfincla, again reared some pretty hybrids rather late in 
the season, her first nest having been interfered with by other 
birds. The young cock hybrids make very sweet singers. 
They naturally vary a good deal in colour. A description of 
