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from two to three pints, with two eggs, and the small species one 
pint and one egg. They should also have raw meat finely minced 
and entirely free from long fibers. 
Vegetable-eating animals. —Antelope, deer, etc., require hay, oats, 
or dry bran and oats mixed, and a little green food can be used 
when obtainable. 
Hippopotamus and rhinoceros should be given hay, fresh green food 
when obtainable, carrots, beets, and other roots. Mixed bran and oats 
should also be fed, to be moistened for the rhinoceros and thoroughly 
wet for the hippopotamus. 
Tapirs require great care in feeding. Hay, straw, beets, or carrots 
cut-up and mixed with bran maybe fed, also boiled rice or potatoes, 
sweet potatoes or yams, bread, biscuits, boiled Indian corn with grass, 
cabbage leaves, and small branches of trees. Constant care and watch¬ 
fulness will be required to arrange a diet upon which the animal will 
thrive. 
Sloths require fruit, such as bananas, figs, etc., lettuce and other 
green food; also bread and milk. 
Kangaroos may be fed on hay, with oats and bran, roots of all kinds, 
and apples; also green food, such as grass, cabbage leaves, and beet 
tops. 
Rodents will eat green food, roots of any kind, apples, bread, bis¬ 
cuit, etc. 
Birds .—Parrots of the larger kinds will eat Indian corn, oats, buck¬ 
wheat, dry biscuits, apples, pears, grapes, and the various tropical 
fruits; also lettuce, cabbage leaves, and other green food. The smaller 
kinds require the same sort of food, except that millet, hempand canary 
seed should be used instead of the larger kinds. 
Marsh and water birds will eat small fish, or larger fish cut into 
small strips ; also fresh meat cut into small pieces. 
Eagles, owls, and other birds of prey should have fresh meat and 
fish cut into strips. Live birds, mice, and rats should be given 
them occasionally when obtainable. 
Ostriches, emeus, and cassowaries require beets, carrots, and other 
roots, cut into small pieces, cabbage leaves, lettuce, etc., also a 
small quantity of oats and a very little corn. The food should be 
varied from day to day as much as possible. 
Reptiles .—Some lizards are exclusively vegetable feeders, while 
others eat only insects, and in many cases it will be necessary to 
try them with different kinds of food in order to ascertain what they 
require. For the iguanas and others requiring vegetable food, let¬ 
tuce, leaves of cabbage, mangrove, etc., and various fruits may be 
used. Many of the insectivorous species will eat cockroaches and 
