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BLUE-WINGED LOVE-BIRDvS. 



Sir, — My pair nested this summer and have one young 

 one, now flying about with the other birds. It is, I imagine, a 

 hen, as there is no bhie in its plumage. 



I have an outdoor aviary with a nesting room, but (like the 

 Budgerigars) the}' preferred the roof, where they can be quite 

 undisturbed. There is a space between the roof and some 

 ornamental timber through which the}' creep. Therefore I 

 could not see the nest, and do not know how many eggs were 

 laid. (Mrs.) HuLTON. 



BREEDING EXPERIENCES. 



Sir, — I should be much interested to know what luck our 

 members have had in breeding in outdoor aviaries this year. 



My experience has been disappointing, as I lost two nests 

 of riificauda and acuiicaiLcia finches through the storms, beside 

 the hen bird of the former and a hen Gouldian. Zebra finches 

 did well in a cocoa-nut husk. 



I congratulate you on the improvement in Bird NOTES. 

 Dr. Creswell's "Story of Bird -death" should be reprinted 

 separately when finished : it is invaluable to all bird keepers. 



A. BuIvLOCK-WEBSTER. 



BALDNESS IN AVADAVATS. 



Sir, — Dr. Greene, in his " Favourite Foreign Birds," 

 says: "One great drawback these little birds have, naniel}', 

 they are very apt to become bald and otherwise featherless, 

 and when this happens I have never known the plumage 

 reproduced." 



My own limited experience coincides, so far, with the 

 above, that I have found them to become bald in a short time, 



