. The bird fancier's companion; or, Natural history of cage birds; their food . wing coverts andtail, light and dark blue, with black stripes across, whiteedged. 4 58 This bird has no natural song, but will, when rearedin a cage, to a certain degree, imitate an air that iswhistled to him. They require a large-sized cage, andlive very well on the paste No. 1, prescribed under headof General Remarks. They are fond of a little beef,as mentioned on same page. RED-BEEASTED GROSBEAK. Giiarica Ludoviciana. This very elegant bird is but little known, yet butfew of our domestic birds much surpass it in
. The bird fancier's companion; or, Natural history of cage birds; their food . wing coverts andtail, light and dark blue, with black stripes across, whiteedged. 4 58 This bird has no natural song, but will, when rearedin a cage, to a certain degree, imitate an air that iswhistled to him. They require a large-sized cage, andlive very well on the paste No. 1, prescribed under headof General Remarks. They are fond of a little beef,as mentioned on same page. RED-BEEASTED GROSBEAK. Giiarica Ludoviciana. This very elegant bird is but little known, yet butfew of our domestic birds much surpass it in sweetnessof song, or beauty of its plumage. It sings by night aswell as by day, and its notes are very clear and great rarity in the wild state accounts for the factthat it is so seldom seen caged, yet no bird can be morehighly prized, its bright carmine breast, and deep blackand snowy white body forming such a rich the summer it wanders into the high northernlatitudes, wintering in the Middle States. Caged, theirfood is the same as the Red 59 RED-WING STARLING. Stujnus Vulgaris. Description. Length, eight inches. The male,when two years old, is black all over, with the exceptionof the wing coverts (shoulders), which are yellow andred. When young, the black is mingled with smallbrown spots, and less on the coverts. The female re-sembles the young male bird, but no red at all. This bird, a native of this country, arrives here earlyin the spring; breeds here, and returns for the winter,back South. Their song is of little variety, being a succession ofchattering notes, but when assembled together in largeflocks, as we have often seen them, filling the branchesof a large tree, and all joining together with their notes,form a concert not less to be admired by the lovers ofnature, than one performed by a band of amateurs. In the wild state this bird lives on berries, insects,&c., as well as on seeds. We have fed them in cageson canary and hemp seed,
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