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Bird Life Tlirough the Camera. 
himseli' up on his legs, one a little higher than the other, and 
over the edige went Pipit number thi^ee. I replaced them 
twice but each time they were dealt witli in the same way, 
so I took them home and gave them to a pair of fledge 
ISpari'ows that had young in one of my aviaries. Hut, although 
they kept them alive for three or four days the young Pipits 
eventually succumbed. 
The Cuckoo arrives in our country about tiie end of 
April and is met with throughout Great Britain; they lay 
their egg on the ground and then by means of their beak 
place it in the nest of the chos'^n foster parents. The young 
Cuckoo being supplied with a hollow in its back, has no 
dillieully in ejecting eggs or young, whichever it happens to 
be. 
The foster parents are kept busy from now onwards 
feeding their voracious child, for the young Cuckoo never 
sec^-ms satisfied, taking some time to fledge, and is fed long 
after it leaves the nest. 
To he continued. 
Foreign Birds. 
(TANAGRIDtE). 
By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., etc. 
Ciiiitiniietl from pa<ie 4. 
Sub, Family iii. TANAGRIN^. 
Rbd-bblhed Blue Tanagbr (2Vf/«a(7r^^//a velia). lam not 
aware of any instance of this species having been imported alive 
into this country, and believe it to be unknown to English a\icul- 
ture. It ranges over Cayenne and Guiana, generally, practi- 
cally the whole of this genus would be a most desirable 
ac(iuisition. 
JJescrijil/oii : The adult //"(/« i.s rich velvety-black above, with the 
sides of head, external edgings of wing, tail feathers and upper tail coverts 
brilliant blue ; below rich blue, witli an irregular band of black crossing the 
throat ; middle of abdomen anc ventral region chestnut-red ; bill black ; 
legs and feet dark brown, total length 4i inches, tail 2 inches. Female : 
Similar to male, but the lines of her plumage much less intense. 
PuitPLE-PllONTED Tanagbr {T. irifliH(i). Another 
species not known to Knglish aviculture and like the preceding 
most desirable. It ranges over the Amazon region, Rio Negi'O, 
and the interior of Colombia. 
