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on millet seed principally, with a mealworm and some ants eggs now and

again.


I have lately received a letter from a friend in the Argentine telling me

that he is sending me a pair of “ Corbatitas ”, another small greyish Finch,

a nice little singer, also having a neat black cravat (hence the name), and

with which I am very familiar, for several pairs used to build their frail nests

of palm fibres in the peach and “ Mandarin ” trees in my garden out in

Uruguay, in pleasant years gone by. And yet I do not know his scientific

or his English name. (Not the Bib Finch, surely ?). Perhaps you can tell me ?


H. C. Martin.


“ Las Can as,”


44b Coper’s Cope Road,


Beckenham, Kent.


3rd April, 1938.



