THE NATURALIST.
As specimens are captured, according to Bailly, by hooks baited with spiders, or some insect of which it is fond, I should imagine that the addition of living insect food, if possible, would be advantageous even to this dietary, and it is possible that a small quantity of fine scraped meat might? be advisable. I have kept the nightingale in captivity for years on food which con* s>isted entirely of" scraped be-sf mixed with" crushed yolk of hard-boiled egg, and meal worms. It is needless to say that freshf food was prepared daily, and, troublesome' as the process was, the reward was commensurate, for to hear the nightingale sing-, ing loudly and to sec it in vigorous health in the middle of our winter was a pleasure that amply compensated for the trouble. — > W. B. Teuetmeieu, in the Field.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2525, 6 August 1902, Page 64
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141THE NATURALIST. Otago Witness, Issue 2525, 6 August 1902, Page 64
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