82 Tanagers m Cages. 
26, and is fed on a diet of three parts sponge-cake, and one 
part Abrahams' Food, with bananas and grapes, ad. lib., and 
a slice of orange and apple on alternate days, he also gets two 
mealworms per diem. He lives next the Sunbirds in the 
warmest part of the room near the fire. He has a most pleas- 
ant little song. His great idea of pleasure i^ to escape from 
his cage and play about on the other birds' cages, chirping*' 
joyously the while, but, after a short outing, he returns to his 
own abode if it is placed in a prominent position. 
All Green Chloro-Tanager (C viridis). This is an- 
other much-prized bird, and a really glittering little gem, 
who flashes about his cage like a little sparkle of 
green and gold. Fruit is his chief diet, and he eats 
but little of the insectile mixture, and will not touch 
a mealworm. He carried off third prize at the 1911 
L.C.B.A. Show. He is a more friendly little bird than the 
Blue and Black Tanager, and always greets one with a pleased 
chirp rather like a Canary. 
The Gold and Green Tanager {C. flava). is 
brilliant in plumage, but quiet in "disposition, with no 
special characteristics beyond a firm determination to eat 
no mealworms unless they are put in his food tin. Pretre's 
Tanager (Spindalis pretrei), I also brought at the L.C.B.A. 
Show, where he was second to the Gold and Green. He is 
very handsome, with his striped plumage (see plate in F chric- 
ar?/ " JB.iV.") living almost entirely on fruit, takes practically no 
soft food, and when I first got him, he would take no meal- 
worms either, but, of late, he has acquired a taste for them, 
and now he eats his two a day with the best of them. I think 
he is the better for them, as he is now more lively, with 
much sleeker plumage. 
The Festive Tanager is another favourite, bright 
in colour, and lively in nature. He is a fine all- 
round feeder, and would indulge in far more than his ration 
of two mealworms a day, if allowed. He is kept in almost 
the warmest position, and does not do nearly as well moved to 
a cooler part of the room. In a big^ box -cage, quite close 
to the fire but screened from the glow of it, lives a 'Blue 
Tanager,* he is a delicate bird and during his first winter I 
* I have had a pair of this species out of doors all the year round 
since 1905, and they are still living. — Ed, 
