. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . tolerably intelligent and confiding;in fine, they are among the most delightful of cage-birds. The feeding of Tanagers is similar to that of mostother fruit-eating fonns—a good insectivorous food mustbe provided, although comparatively little of it may beeaten, some of these birds hardly touching it exceptingto pick out the yolk of egg; and, a.^ fniit, ripe orange,]>ear, or split fresh figs and, of course, banana; meal-\\orms, smooth , fir spiders are regarded asa, great trvat and should l>t> given when available. Some of these birds
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . tolerably intelligent and confiding;in fine, they are among the most delightful of cage-birds. The feeding of Tanagers is similar to that of mostother fruit-eating fonns—a good insectivorous food mustbe provided, although comparatively little of it may beeaten, some of these birds hardly touching it exceptingto pick out the yolk of egg; and, a.^ fniit, ripe orange,]>ear, or split fresh figs and, of course, banana; meal-\\orms, smooth , fir spiders are regarded asa, great trvat and should l>t> given when available. Some of these birds eat and even husk seeds, inwhich respect they evince Fringilline affinities, butnevertheless do tiot necessarily belong to theFringilUdce; on the contrary Saltator auranluroslris is-specially noted by Ridgway as not a true Finch, All-giieen \ (Chioropfwnia viridxs). Head and neck bright green ; Kick dark blue-green ;wing-coverts bljisih; najie, circle round eye and uppertail-coverts sky-blue; wing and tail-feathers (1) Violet TANAGEKS. (2) Scarlet. (3) Superb. 76 FOREIQN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. edged with green; under surface bright yellow; underwing-coverts and innei margins of wing-feathers white;bill dark leaden grey; feet bluish flesh-brown; iridesbrown. Female with the blue of the upper surfaceconfined to the napi- and rump, the back brownisholivaceous; tlie under surface yellowish green. Habitat, Brazil. Nothing appears to be known respecting the wild lifeof this beautiful bird ; mdeed, excepting for Hudsonsnotes in The Birds of the Argentine Republic thefew records of tbe habits of S. American birds when atliberty are widely sc-;>tteTe<l. Whethe,r it is of South American birdskins have been utterlyapathetic with regard to living birds, and thereforehave not asked their ccllectors to note the wild lifeof the birds which they h;ive shot, one cannot tell; butit is a fact that most of the papers published by greatstudents of tropic
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