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When I cleared about half of them out the Dufresne's, and Blue-breasted 

 Waxbills promptly went to nest, but it was too late in the year and I had 

 to remove them indoors before incubaticn was complete. 



The Chestnut-breasted Finches in a separate aviary hatched out one 

 young bird which died when about len days old; just what occurred with 

 two nests of Yellow-rumped Miumikins twenty years ago. They seem to 

 thrive for about ten days nnd then die. tliough last vear I gave live ants' 

 eggs and gentles but they would not have anything to do with them. 



My hen Plumbeous Quail {Coturi'iv plumbens) laid fifty six eggs, but 

 c'.id not sit : a broody hatched cut thirteen and then trod them all to 

 death in three days. I hatched out others in an incubato/ i.nd kept them 

 going for a fortnight, ihen got ill myself — it is very hard work hunting round 

 a town garden for ants' eggs, etc ; and picking gentles out of the filth they 

 live in is not lady's work, so the poor little quails had to be killed for lack 

 o'' anyone to supply their need, and, what might have been an interesting 

 and very pleasing e].'sode l:)ecame a sad and disappointing n-'gedy. 



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THE AMATEUR A1E\A(;ERIE CLUB— Ykar Book 1922-3. 



This handsome and tastefully got up volume is now 

 ,!L;'ettin,i-;' nearer to normal Inilk. Birds are not lari^'ely repre- 

 sented this year being' confined to three articles. More C)\vls, by 

 Miss E. T'". ("hawner; Animals and Birds in the Park of Cleres. 

 by j. Delacour: and Random Notes, by W. J. Henning. The 

 half-tone plates are beautifully reproduced, and all of great 

 interest ; nearly every page is adorned by deligiitfid and apt 

 marginal sketches by the Hon. Sec, G. Tyrwhitt-Drake. Other 

 contents are: A Rodent Aristocrat, H. C. Brooke; Extracts 

 from my Diary, A. Ezra; A Hairless Mouse; Sport in Thrace, 

 T-. C. Laidley: A Few Dont's on Animals, X.Y.Z.; List of 

 Honorary Members, Rules, Objects and Advantages of the 

 Club, and Index completes an interesting volume of 91 pages. 



THE CONDOR : A Magazine of Western Ornithology; 

 Nov. -Dec. 1922. This Californian Bi-monthly is of more than 

 usual interest and contains : 

 Development of young Costa Rica Humming Birds, illus.. 



R. C. Woods. 

 Evidence of Musical " Taste " in the Brown Towhee. R. Hunt. 

 Notes on the Yellow-billed Loon, A. M. Bailey., 



