:AII :ai3l)ts !acscrvc6. Uul?. 1922. 



BIRD NOTES: 



— THE — 

 JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 



Jiine and July in My Aviaries. 



By W. Shore Baily, F.Z.S. 



At the beginning of this month most of the birds in my 

 Waders' aviary were coming into colour. Four out of my eight 

 Knots had assumed their reddish-coloured breasts; the cock 

 Puffs had fully developed their queer necklaces, ah totally 

 different from each other, so that a non-birdy observer would 

 take them to be birds of different species; the only Wader in 

 which, so far, there has been no change is my solitary Grey 

 Plover. Two years ago I had one of these birds that came into 

 Of the other birds most of the Whydahs and Weavers are either 

 full breeding plumage, and he really was a handsome bird then, 

 in full plumage, or showing colour. The two Giant Whydahs 

 look particularly handsome as they fly around their large 

 aviaries. Unfortunately I have been unable to get hens for 

 them. My Demoiselle Cranes have at last given up their 



attempt to produce chicks from stones. The cock has been 

 qrite savage recently. On one occasion a cocker puppy about 

 r,ix months old followed me into his paddock, when the cock 

 Crane promptly came at him open mouthed and with wing.s 

 outspread — a truly alarming object- -and the puppy evidently 

 thought so, as he took refuge between my legs, only to be 

 removed by a vicious peck from the bird's beak. Verily that 

 puppy flew, but the Crane covered the ground nearly as quickly 

 and but for the friendly shelter of some thick bushes the little 

 dog would have had a sad time. I was much amused, as the 

 puppy had been rather fancying himself on the strength of being- 

 able to make my Peacock take flight, and my Adjutant Storks 



