The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-04

| boris cat visits nm. She can sit there, looking
nled , with love and devotion. but II Is mo use.
to-day on this little fellows healthy body, now"
Eliza Cook SAYS
grave where no marble will shut out the sky;
T be Sr ass b tree out far and
IL the eloquent hymn of a beautiful Ord.
THE STARTLING
Is OF blacktsh-greenish hue changing to purple.
Its feathers are all tipped with white. ana it Is
nearly Sut nine inches long Its song Is nothing 70 brSg
him wonderful thing. The bird learns all 1t knows
the first Two years Of its liie and never forgets
II, Notwithstanding he lives to be seventeen years
DID, He likes TO be allowed to run around o room
and talk TO himself, and pick up the crumbs and
that she is Obliged 10 tie him by The leg to chair.
Soon after, when she Is on the point OF saying the
s"''"'ted Eyes" TO younH Dam"r nor starting stops
hsE SaItng out "YO1 c1ii'E unite the Knot BE-
,u,.u u,,v 49,, 10 speak Gsa c0psecqlye Hogds. ne
can be taught to whistle three TOUR airs, anu 20
thrush. and he should have Tie same food as the
and aluses himself BY hopping into the cradle and
waking the baby, and hooking 1t when 1t cries.
There used to be one IN London tnat, whenever
there was q rap at the door En0cker he would run
to the door with the h0usemaid, and noddin2 his
little nead would cali out "H0w do you d0T Who
would not ike 10 own stariingp
A pennyworth Of mrh worth pound of sorrow.
THE BULLFINCH
has dark reddish breast. His head, wings and
tail are black, and his back has patch OF gray and
red and red where he ia gray. TINS seems singular
indeed The birds are about six inches long, The
sound Is "soiter than lovers lute;" but you have
to teach him TO shape 1t into song. BY first whist
want. and come out Of his cage and sit ON on
your finger while ne does 80. But he must
S Ss SS nses n IS was ss tns s0uS music T9s
a nute They are natives OF Germany. There
excellence than almost any other bird. Some Of
them will not learn at all. Those that bring high
stupid look and movement but they whistle
charmingiy and yoa get your moneys worth. They
Cusn in IT, treat Them the same az the canary bird
and cut their claws when they need 1t. Their price
varies from ten TO forty dollars.
THE BLACK GAP
Is line singer some think him next TO the
nightingale. although he does not sing at all like
nightingale His cage need not be quite as large,
and needs no cloth on the top OF It. the TOP OF this
Sos s e s
and the cap on his head Is dark brown. Ills notes
are very SOFT but very bhthe and gay, asn
No Nr grief affected yet -, his breast,
His soft enchanting lays.
The black cap can be bought for So
THE ROBIN REDBREAsr
1s brave, bold bird, and "eye hath not seen, car
hath not heard neither hath 1t entered into the
been found more acceptable to the weary pilgrim
along iiie's dusty highway than the robins.
The MONDAY carol of bird,
Like loving smiles we
May touch ~ S sss Rsa asp %.h .s.rred'
And ever since the robins compassion was mani.
fest IN covering the babes in the woods with leaves
he has touched our hearts to reverence him for a
Christian bird; and the record OF TINS KIND deed
will live as long Aisops tables. All our readers
know how the robin redDreast looks. lie Is one and
the same here and In England, except that the
tDOa oil thac
free. Not so with ours, however. We must 90 to
the orchard OF apple or OF cherry bloom In the
merry month OF May to have our hearts melt
away In raptures. If the airs that are said
TO be played TO the departed souls OF the
good on their nrst arrival In Paradise TO
qualify them for the pleasures Of that happy place
are more purely laden with tranquIlizing delight
we should like to know it. The song OF the robin,
ana his afable familiarity In coming so near our
dwellings TO build, make moments as rosy for us
as for his own breast; ana we love the ro6in with
all our heart. Their nest is larger than most birds
OF their size build, and they Will work away at
building It as nnooncernedly when they see under
the tree as II we were not seen by them. They Law
four and sometimes five eggs, OF blue-green color
and oval shape. They SIT fourteen days on their
young ones are the most awkward little lumps of
things IMAGINABLE, unless 1t Is the young whlppoor-
wider than the young robin. The rob DuSTs
ewes are not opened for four days after he
leaves leaves the , shell. and there is no sign Of
throat at the least sound and viii swallow a worm
as long as themselves. When they are ten DAYS old
iiyou take them-nest and all-and put them In
cage and close the door, and hang them where the
Old Drds can come TO them, the latter Will 40 So
and feed the young through the wires of the cage
for I'VE or six days, but at the expiration of tnat
time the old ones, finding that they cannot get the
young ones out, wllI bring them poison food and
Nil them all. Gases OF this Kind have occurred
many times within our observation.
the ROBIN Is easily taken care OF. The American
meal and angle worms. They must have q large,
square cage and plenty OF drinking and Datbinr
their cage gravel and piece OF fresh sod Of earth
You can give them cherries and elderberries in the
season OF iruit, and they VIII get along nicely
name, and will nap their wings and chirp as soon as
You y come On, to their cage; u ana they like
ana lite for more. II you open the cage door ana
tie 1t back ami nang 1t out by OF the house
after the birds have been Gagged Two MONTHS they
Will 90 In and out after staying away for hours IN
the trees around the house they are used to. This
Is done by the American bird; but we are not sure
that the English one will become SO domesiicated.
1t IS, however best To keep the cage closed IN the
spring OF the year for fear that the robin may
and pe inclined 10 stay with his mates In the Or
cnard. The English robins among US are fed on
quire more care and dainties nan our native bird
We do not know. but The bird dealers will direct you
to take as much care OF them and as mncn trouble
win their ood as are required IVr the Nightingale.
The swamp robin OF America Is better worth
cagng than almost any bird we have that is pecu-
lIariy our own. VI course no one VIII dare TO say
that there Is any bird equal to our knocking bird,
which is an aborigIne-solely a native American
bird, ana proud enough we are TO say 80; but OF
HIM we propose 10 speak Ut iuture Time, when we
shall talk OF American birds only. Ihe English
robin Is treasure aud can be bought for Sl5 The
swamp room OF America differs from the common
robin redDreasl OF the orchard; but We Will tell Of
them hereafter.
THE BLACKBIRD
OF England Is rightly named. He Is blacker than
PUe's Raven "BIrd, beast or devI'-and his mari.
goid-co.orcd beaK uniting with his all over black
ness, makes one feel like asking II his ancestors
really believed that 1.-THE devil was dead aud buried
III Jamaica when they put on his mourning or
wnether lhey used him as candle To hgnt up
naues. Inc rgnt name for this Ord should be
.ghouis' candie.r But Notwithstanding his ap-
pearance IL So much against MIN Won must come 10