. Bird notes . PLUMBEOUS REDSTARTRutitilla GREEN-BACKED monticolus. Photos by E, O. B. Page. IOI Diet : Gould makes no mention of pollen or nectar as aportion of its dietary, but there can be little doubt that it par-takes of both, its long narrow tongue with the brush-like tipsufficiently indicates this. In my aviary it eats heartily of milksop, less so of soft food and ripe fruit, but it will take as manylive insects (principally mealworms with me) as you choose togive it; bathes freely but drinks very little water. On the abovediet it has improved immensely since comi
. Bird notes . PLUMBEOUS REDSTARTRutitilla GREEN-BACKED monticolus. Photos by E, O. B. Page. IOI Diet : Gould makes no mention of pollen or nectar as aportion of its dietary, but there can be little doubt that it par-takes of both, its long narrow tongue with the brush-like tipsufficiently indicates this. In my aviary it eats heartily of milksop, less so of soft food and ripe fruit, but it will take as manylive insects (principally mealworms with me) as you choose togive it; bathes freely but drinks very little water. On the abovediet it has improved immensely since coming into my possession. This specimen is a most interesting bird, with muchcharacter, but anything further than the foregoing generalremarks I must leave for later notice, when I have had a morelengthy acquaintance with it. # * $ The Green-backed Tit (Parus inonticolus). A most en-trancing little fellow which has made but a short stay with me,shuffling off I fear, owing to an insufficiency of live food. Ina roomy cage I do not anticipate there would ha
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