24() risits to Members' Ai'iancs. 



careful thought that has been expended upon tlieir planning, 

 also how effectually extension has been carried on, so as to 

 form a complete whole. The numbers on the ground plan are 

 mine and may not accord with those Air. Shore Baily uses; they 

 were given as 1 walked round, so as to enable me to localise my 

 notes, which latter mostly consisted of a list of the birds 1 saw. 

 With this introduction I will now ask my readers to accompany 

 MS in our wahv through the aviaries. 1 may say all this accom- 

 modation runs along one side and the back of the lawn, thick 

 shrubberies shutting them out of vision from the house windows. 



Aviar\' No. i. — Aviaries Nos. i to 8 are constructed 

 round the stable and garage yard, the shelters of Nos. 7 and 8 

 being the ])ortioned-ofT stable. No. i stands alone, a roomy 

 aviary fully 15ft. high — this is given uj) to a pair of African 

 Spotted Eagle-Owls {Bubo inaciilosiis) which have already been 

 described by their owner — they are handsome l)irds, in psrfect 

 condition, and should ultimately breed. 



Aviaries 2 to 8 form one range on the op]>osite side of 

 the yard, and consist of a long shed with wire-netting front and 

 partitioned off into the respective divisions. They are roomy 

 :ind form very effective parrakeet aviaries. 



No. 2: This contained several Pearly Conures {ryrrliitra 

 i'crlaia), a rare and pretty species, which next season should 

 win our member yet another F.B.C breeding medal. 



Their description from Brit. Miis. Cat. is as follows: 



" Adult: Green; a dull frontal Ijand, another on the lower pari of 



" hind neck; cheeks, ni)]ier hreast, sides, vent, outermost upi)er tail-coverts, 

 bluish : pileimi and najie hrown ; cheeks more or less greenish on the 

 upper part; ear-coverts brown-grey; throat and breast lirown, with lighter 



" edges; feathers of the breast with two cross-bands- — a broader one light 

 brown, and a second one narrow and 1)!ackish at Up: a brown-red patch 

 on middle of abdomen, sometimes scarcely visible, .and always more or 

 less hidden by liie green edges of the feathers ; b;istard-wing and ))i-imary- 



" coverts blue: first primary black, the remainder deep blue, with a 

 narrow brighter edge on the outer webs; secondaries blue, with the outer 

 webs green ; tertials green ; bend of the wings and smaller under wing- 

 coverts red, the greater ones blackish, sometimes some of them reddish; 



" quills underneath blackish with a slight olive tinge; tail above brown-red, 

 but redder at the base of the inner web of the feathers; bill horn-brown; 



" feet dusky. Total length 9.5 inches, wing 5, tail 4.6, bill o.hs, tarsus 



•' 0.42.— B.L.C., Vol. p. 22--8." 



T quote the above as the light was not good, and tmder the 



