96 So)uc Hybrid Records. 



eggs only — male parent placed first in each instance : 

 *Canary x Buliiinch § Hawfinch X I>ullfinch 



♦Greenfinch x Bullfinch (fcriile egg only) 



^Goldfinch x Bullfinch §Goldfinch x Greenfinch 



*J>innct X Piullfinch *Linnet X Greenfinch 



* Redpoll X Bullfinch. 



In most, if not all the above, the young hybrids were 

 reared by foster-parents (canaries being the foster-parent used), 

 and cross-mated pairs were kept both in aviaries and cages — 

 success or non-success is, of course, in this paper confined to 

 records in Bird Notes, and in this instalment to Vol. I., F.S. 



I purpose digressing here to include what I believe to 

 ],j the first record of the successful breeding of the Spice Bird 

 (Munia punctulata) by our president, the Lady J3unleath, in 

 1901. Her aviaries have recently been described in Bird Notes, 

 so I shall cjuote only the terse breeding notes, as follow : 



" Breeding the Spice Bird. — I have had my pair of Spice-Birds for some 

 " years — since 1896 I think. In May of last year (1900J I turned all my 

 " birds out into a new outdoor aviary which 1 had made. In the No. i 

 " Division of same I have • 

 Canaries Avadavats Parson Finches 



Ribbon Finches Nuns Saffron Finches 



Waxbills Bengalese Bullfinches 



Cockateels Java Doves Cordon Blens 



Spice Birds Scarlet Tanager Nicobar Pigeons 



Mountain P'inch Superb Tanager Fontenegra Finch 



in all 130 birds." 



" Before I went to Scotland this autumn (1901) I had only one pair 

 " of Spice Birds, and I noticed one of them sitting in a travelling box-cage, 

 " which was hung inside the aviary cottage-shelter, from the roof, by a 

 " long wire (to prevent mice from getting at the nest). I went away at 

 " the beginning of August, and on returning at the end of September i 

 " found two young Spice Birds flying about, with fluff still on their heads. 

 " They are now (December 1901) a beautiful rich brown, and more clearly 

 " marked than their parents. Th.ree Cordon Blens were also reared. — N. 



" L. F. J^UNLh.VrH." 



The whole of Series i of Bird Notes is out of print, so 

 f feel assured such record and episodes as the above will prove 

 oi' much interest to my readers, as but very few original 

 members are left on the roll. 



To be continued. 



