. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . ngated and his bcjik turned up tothe ceiliii; for fully half an hour beforehaiul and forquite ten minutes a-fterwajds. On Sunday, the 15thof the month, the hen spent the whole day in carryingup hay to a lar^e deep box nailed against the wall ne^rthe ceiling, and on the surface of this she formed asaucer-shaped depression, in which shortly afterwardsshe laid three eggs. Whilst sitting she was fed by thecock bird, but whenever he gave her an insect she in- slightly damped. I also gave them small earthwormsmixed with garden mould in a large saucer, spiders of
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . ngated and his bcjik turned up tothe ceiliii; for fully half an hour beforehaiul and forquite ten minutes a-fterwajds. On Sunday, the 15thof the month, the hen spent the whole day in carryingup hay to a lar^e deep box nailed against the wall ne^rthe ceiling, and on the surface of this she formed asaucer-shaped depression, in which shortly afterwardsshe laid three eggs. Whilst sitting she was fed by thecock bird, but whenever he gave her an insect she in- slightly damped. I also gave them small earthwormsmixed with garden mould in a large saucer, spiders ofall sizes in quantity, flies, butterflies, motlis, chrysalides,caterpillars, a few mealworms, and beetles. One pointin the feeding which I have not ^een recorded interestedme greatly. It is well known to all breeders of bothBritish and foreign Finches that they always feed oneanotlier and their young from the crop; they nevergive them food which is not partially digested, so thatthe young are fed not only on vegetable or insect food,. Bluehikds ok Bluk Robins. variably left the nest to eat it. In thirteen days theeggs hatched, and two days later two of the youngbirds were carried out dead, and dropfwd upon the floorat some distance fiom the nest; the third bird wassafely reared, and moulted into his adult plumagetowards the end of August. The staple food which Iprepared for my Blue Robins, and upon which theyI)artly fed their young one, was a mixture of ci-umbledstale bread (two parts), Abrahams insectivorous birdsfood (one part), prepared yolk of egg (one part), driedants eiiijs (one iiart). and grocers currants (one i>art),* • Groiers currants sliould not be given ; tliey may possibly navecaused the death of the two young which died in the nest. but upon half-digested and softened seeds; but it wasquite a new fact to me that soft-billed birds prepared. food for their young. Indeed, I know that our Robin,Blackcap, and in fact our warblers generally, Thrushesof all kinds.
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