Foreign Finches in Captivity.
the young of Wagtails newly liatclied in the same aviary. Ergo^MS. Scarlet
Tanagers should be fed oil raw bullock's liver or beefsteak. Why? Because (Don't
yon understand?) dead ox and newly-hatched squab are, to all intents and purposes,
the same thing. No, I am too obtuse to understand that, and what is more I don't
believe it, and will not teach such utter nonsense. Somewhat the same line of
mental argument must be entered into by the man who recommends chopped beef
for soft-billed songsters; only the argument is one degi'ee more absurd, because
he has to persuade himself that worms or .small beetles are identical \\dth bullock
in their effect on the health of his pets.
