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Rh and if you put an empty cage beside the other, and scatter some seed in it, they will hop in quite good-naturedly. All you want is some contrivance to close the door upon them. When they find themselves prisoners they are not the least discomposed, but make themselves at home and behave in a friendly manner to the former occupants.

There are many kinds of foreign Munias, and some species from other parts of India, which find their way to the market and thence to the aviaries, but those I have mentioned are all that we have to do with here.