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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d will takekindly to a cage, which should be of the Nightingale pattern. It will agree well with other birds,especially those of its class. The Blackcaps food well suits this bird ; a little sopped sponge-cakemay be added, and, as with all the warblers, variety is a great feature in the treatment. Thisattention alone may add several years to their life. All the longest-lived birds we have knownreceived very frequent changes of diet. If care be bestowed, this bird will not unfrequently sing, witha very slight interval, during the whole of the year. Its ailments greatly resemble those of theBlackcap, and should be treated accordingly. If the bird be found pining or ragged in its plumage,a few green caterpillars, such as may be found on cabbages, should be daily administered. A correspondent informs us that he kept one from September, 1877, to May, 1878, whichstood the winter (which, it must be remembered, was a very mild one) without a fire. It was fed Cassells Canaries and Cage. Sirds.
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ROBIN. 2 WRtN. 3. REDSTART, 4 VVHEATEAR The Robin. 311 on bread, German paste, egg, ants eggs, mealworms, gentles, and a constant supply of fruit; butit never throve; and this gentleman gives it as his opinion that they require meat introduced intotheir food. The Robin is undoubtedly the most popular of all the feathered tribe. In our earliestchildhood he is closely associated with many of those nursery rhymes which strike so deeplyinto the childish mind that they are never thoroughly forgotten. He is par excellence thepet of the nursery ; and as years grow upon us, who does not look upon Robin as an oldfriend . Even the school-boy hesitates to take its nest. Bold he is, and appeals to our feelingswith a fearless confidence, expressing by his actions the wants that wintry snows have castupon him ; for it is then, when almost all our songsters have departed, and those remaining aremute, that Robin shows his individuality, and with a sure instinct approaches the habitationsof man, certa

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