. The natural history of cage birds : their management, habits, food, diseases, treatment, breeding, and the methods of catching them . ast or black at the vent. Edwards, who has represented it in his 355th plate, hasadded a female, which he kept in the same cage, and whichwas improved by its companion. The upper part of its bodywas grey brown, the sides of the head and under part of thebody pinkish, or rather blush colour, the wing and tail feathersblackish, the feet flesh-colour. The blackness of* the wings and tail makes me suspect thatthis female belongs to another species; its attachment
. The natural history of cage birds : their management, habits, food, diseases, treatment, breeding, and the methods of catching them . ast or black at the vent. Edwards, who has represented it in his 355th plate, hasadded a female, which he kept in the same cage, and whichwas improved by its companion. The upper part of its bodywas grey brown, the sides of the head and under part of thebody pinkish, or rather blush colour, the wing and tail feathersblackish, the feet flesh-colour. The blackness of* the wings and tail makes me suspect thatthis female belongs to another species; its attachment andfamiliarity prove nothing. We know, in fact, that nearly allgranivorous birds hold communion together, and mutuallycaress each other with the bill. —The Malacca Finch comes from the East Indies : it isvery gentle, confiding, and lively. Its voice is strong ; its cry, tziapppronounced in a loud clear tone. Though its song is somewhat nasal andrather noisy, it is not disagreeable. Its food, when in confinement, is hemp and canary seed, which I haveknown preserve it for a long time in good health. THE SNOW BUNTING. Emberiza nivalis, LinnjEus ; LOrtoIan de neige, Buffon; Der Schneeamer,Bechstein. Naturalists say that the plumage of this bird differs con-siderably in summer and winter ; though, from analogy with THE 8N0W BUNTING. 113 others of its species, 1 am authorized in suspecting that tinschange arises rather from age. I shall leave the questionundecided; and since we can never see this bird when it hasretired in summer within the arctic circle, its native home9 Ishall content myself with describing its winter colours, such aswe may see them in a room. It is the size of a lark, six inches and a half in length, ofwhich the tail measures two and two-thirds. The beak is fiveor six lines in length, with every characteristic of the buntingspecies, conical in form, rather bent at the sides, and having abony tubercle like a grain of barley at the palate; its colour
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