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covered with roofing felt. The sleeping quarters are divided into 

 two sections : one about 6 feet wide for the Finches, and the 

 remaining space (4 feet) for the Budgerigars. The Finches 

 quarters are boarded down two feet. Under the boarding two 

 windows (each 2 feet wide by 4 feet long) are fitted ; these open 

 into the flight. The remainder of the front is boarded. A wire 

 gate, which will shortly be exchanged for a wooden door, leads 

 into the sleeping quarters. The Budgerigars sleeping and nest- 

 ing quartets are quite open, but I have fitted a piece of cor- 

 rugated iron in front of the opening so as to keep out the driving 

 rain. The flight for the Finches and Budgerigars is 8 feet long, 

 and the same width as their respective sleeping quarters. Each 

 division has its own grass patch, and the remainder of the space 

 and the inside of the sleeping quarters have sea gravel to a 

 depth of quite six inches. 



The interior fittings for the Finches consist of a perching 

 rail running along the back and one side. The back is lined 

 with large fir branches and pea sticks ; in these I have fixed 

 various small nest baskets, also, where suitable along the back 

 and sides, I have placed ordinary small travelling boxes and some 

 cocoa-nut husks. 



For the Budgerigars I have provided two husks for each 

 pair. For nesting materials I use the ordinary mixtures of hair, 

 moss, &c, one buys at a penny a time, and I constantly put on 

 the bottom of the aviary long pieces of dried grass, which the 

 Finches employ more than anything else for their nests. They 

 also particularly appreciate the combings from our Persian cat, 

 which are carried off and used for linings to the nests. 



And now for the inmates of the aviaries. In the Finches 

 aviary I started in the third week of June with a pair each of 



Rufous-tailed Grassfiuches (Bathilda ruficauda). 



Black-headed Gouldian Finches {Poephila gouldii). 



Bicheno Finches {Stictoptoa bichenovii). 



Long-tailed Grassfiuches (Poephila acuticctuda). 



Zehra Finches (Tceniopygia castanotis). 



Crimson Finches (Neochmia phaeton). 



Hartz-Mouutain Canaries. 



Diamond Doves (Geope/ia cnneala). 



Ill the Budgerigar aviary I put three pairs of Green, and 



