. The natural history of cage birds : their management, habits, food, diseases, treatment, breeding, and the methods of catching them . om the nest; fed on ants eggs, chopped meat and whitebread soaked in milk, varying these things as their health requires, andas their excrements are too frequent or too soft. In short, they may beaccustomed to the nightingales food. I must here remark that a veryattentive person alone can hope to succeed *. Attractive Qualities.—I have seen two golden orioles that werereared from the nest, one of which, independent of the natural song,whistled a minuet, and th
. The natural history of cage birds : their management, habits, food, diseases, treatment, breeding, and the methods of catching them . om the nest; fed on ants eggs, chopped meat and whitebread soaked in milk, varying these things as their health requires, andas their excrements are too frequent or too soft. In short, they may beaccustomed to the nightingales food. I must here remark that a veryattentive person alone can hope to succeed *. Attractive Qualities.—I have seen two golden orioles that werereared from the nest, one of which, independent of the natural song,whistled a minuet, and the other imitated a flourish of trumpets. Its fulland flute-like tones appeared to me extremely pleasing. Unfortunatelythe fine colours of its plumage were tarnished, which almost alwayshappens, above all if the bird be kept in a room filled with smoke, eitherfrom the stove or from tobacco. One of my neighbours saw two goldenorioles at Berlin, both of which whistled different airs. Its note of call, which in the month of June so well distinguishesthe golden oriole from other birds, may be well expressed by ye,puhlot- THE Upupa Epops, Linn^us ; La Huppe, Buffon ; Der gemeine Wiedehopf,Bechstein. The length of this bird is twelve inches, of which the tailmeasures four, and the bill, which is black, two and a half. * These young birds like to wash ; but it is dangerous for them to have thewater too cold, or to let them remain too long in it, as cramp in the feet maybe the consequence. In one which we possessed, the accident was more vexatiousas the bird was otherwise in good health, having followed the above mentioneddiet.—Translator. t The natural song is very like the awkward attempts of a country boy with ahad musical ear to whistle the notes of the missel thrush.—Translator. THE HOOPOE 41) The iris is blackish brown. The feet are black and veryshort. There is a tuft on the head like a fan, formed of adouble row of feathers, all of them tipped with black. Habitati
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