Identifier: illustratedbooko00blak (find matches)
Title: The illustrated book of canaries and cage-birds, British and foreign
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Blakston, W. A Swaysland, W Wiener, August F
Subjects: Canaries Cage birds
Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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ivesize, it makes a pretty addition to the aviary, where it should be fed and treated in everyrespect as the Wren, not omitting the boxes with holes in, lined with moss or wool for thesake of warmth. The Nuthatch is a very beautiful bird, and an especial favourite of ours, being one ofthe most interesting in our aviary, where its incessant activity attracts every ones attention.If given a nut it is very amusing to notice with what adroitness it fixes the nut into a crackof the cork in order to break the shell more readily. When this is accomplished, however, theTits are always ready to pounce upon any stray morsels, sometimes indeed securing the wholekernel. When wild this bird feeds upon almost every variety of nut, especially beechmast, asalso berries, seeds, and insects; and in confinement it should be fed upon nuts, cracked, scrapedbeef and egg, German paste, soaked bread and hemp seed, as well as hemp-seed whole, andbeechmast whenever obtainable. Cassells Canaries and Cage Birds.
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I. BLACK-HEADED BUNTING. 2 CIRL BUNTING. 3. YELLOW BUNTING. Buntings. 3;JJ. BUNTINGS. The Yellow Bunting, or Yellow-hammer, is a somewhat common bird, of handsomeplumage but indifferent song, which consists of one note repeated several times, and two lowerprolonged notes of not very pleasing tone. It frequents small thickets and hedgerows, generallybuilding its nest under shelter of some small bush in a hedge-bottom or amongst the grass of aditch. It feeds principally upon seeds, small grains, and insects, and in the summer-time is oneof the most attractive of British birds, flitting from bush to bush, and displaying to markedadvantage the bright lemon-yellow on its breast and head, and the rich chestnut-brown on theback and upper tail-coverts. It is certainly a desirable addition to an aviary. The one nowin our own, where its very handsome plumage ranks second to none, has been kept there forthree years. This one feeds upon the general food supplied, nothing seeming to come amiss toi

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