Excerpt from Feathered Friends: Old and New

To the point, however. I have said that it has some defects which detract from the general excellence of its character, and so it has. In the first place, it is purely of insectivorous habits, a serious difficulty in the matter of keeping it until recently, for after a short dieting upon the makeshifts that are vended for insect-eaters, one of these birds will soon grieve its owner by having a fit, or it may even carry its objection to its feeding so far as to die, which of course is a most unreasonable proceeding on its part, at least from the fancier's point of view.

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