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First egg hatched July 6th. 



Second egg hatched July 7th. 



The fledgelings were blind and of a deep red brown, quite 

 naked, no down being visible. 



The last hatched fledgeling died on July 3 2th, only living 

 six days. The other throve and appeared to be a very healthy 

 youngster, the quills appeared 011 the seventh day and on the 

 tenth day the colours of the plumage were plainly visible ; on 

 thetwelvth day when it died it was in every respect the same in 

 colouring as its parents. There was no apparent reason for its 

 untimely decease, it appeared all right in the morning, but was 

 dead at mid-day. It was well nourished and appeared very 

 robust. The parent birds fed it from the crop, entirely on meal- 

 worms, only taking fruit and the insectile mixture for their own 

 sustenance ; they had gentles and live ants' cocoons, but only 

 as aforestated fed their young on mealworms. The weather was 

 very wet and during that time the cock bird mostly sat beside 

 his mate to assist her to shelter the young. 



[The wet weather was most probably the cause of this disappointing- failure, several 

 of the days during- this period being very cold, especially so as following- a very hot dry 

 period. It is these sudden changes from one extreme to the other that are responsible for 

 many annoying losses. — Ed.] 



Jfecunoitp of H?dlo\x> Bufcoenijars, etc 



By Capt. A. Perreau. 



On reading over the " Editorial " 011 this subject, see Bird 

 Notes, Vol. VI., No. 11, p. 342, I thought I would like to look up 

 the actual numbers from my records. I fancy the numbers given 

 in most cases in my letter were rough, and I was rather surprised 

 to find them so much understated. I give a few cases of prolific 

 birds. Many aviculturists will envy me my advantage in climate, 

 but I would remind them that I have other disadvantages, some 

 quite obvious, but mostly small not- worth-putting-on -paper ones 

 which, when combined, form the chief obstacle to successful 

 aviculture in India. I would also point out that they see things 

 at my cheeriest. 



My records may at times appear conflicting, for I keep up 

 two books. My nesting record ignores birds after they have 



