26o Records of Birds zvliich lunw Bred in Ca/^tiz'ify. 



them several times. ( )n the fourth day after tlieir exit from 

 the nest they were flying' strongly and followed their parents 

 where'er they went. 



From subsecjuent nests J gleaned that the incubation 

 period was fourteen days, and that the young left the nest on 

 the fourteenth to sixteenth day after hatching. 



In all at least four clutches of eggs were laid, the same 

 nest being' used on each occasion. The eggs were white and 

 almost as round as a marble, smallish for the size of the bird. 

 Six young birds have been fully reared. 



These are handsome doves for the mixed aviary, of 

 graceful contour and pleasing colouration, amiable witli other 

 birds, non-interfering in every respect, yet quite able to keep 

 nil comers from intruding upon the nest. 



So far as I know the young never went near the nest once 

 they had flown, at any rate I never saw them. 



As soon as the adult hen was nesting again, the young 

 were forsaken by both parents and had to look entirely after 

 themselves, proving to be quite as amiable as their parents, yet 

 fully able to take their own part — there were five other species. 

 o<" doves in the aviary, some of them the reverse of amiable, 

 but all the vouni>- which left the nest (six in all) have sur\-ive(l. 



Post Mortenis for the Month. 



For Rules 7'/(/r ]>;i,ijc ii. of Cm-cr. 

 i-';u):2J. \\'hitk Java Sparrciw (?): from T. (). Harrison, Esq., 



Sumlerland. — .'\cuU' intlamniation of oviduct and cloaca ; a sofl-shellcd 



egg was present. The l)ird was otherwise in good condition. 

 ]6 : 10 -.22. Orakgi-: Wkavicu (M.ile) : from Mrs. Alice Chatterton, Ruisl'p.^ 



'i'lie liird was excessively fat. with fatt\- degeneration of the liver, and a 



terminal bronchitis. 



2o:io:2J. Mkai.y Roski.i.a (.Male): from T. (loodwin, F.s'i., London. 

 .S.E. — The h'rd was very thin and wasted, with .an acute Catarrhal enteritis. 



October 31st, 1922. (^ H HTCK.S. 



