74 Breeding the Bulbid, Shama, ajid Pekin Robin. 



two fine young birds were soon fending for themselves and 

 their parents again nesting, though their male parent still 

 assisted them a little. 



Incubation lasted 12 to 14 days. The eggs are much 

 like those of the common House Sparrow, pinkish -white ,in 

 colour, lined, IMotched, and spotted with purplish -brown. The 

 clutch usually numbers three. Sometimes only two and 

 occasionally four. 



The Red -whiskers are excellent parents, very perse- 

 vering, but not so good as the Icncotis, who never ate a 

 mealworm themselves, till they had fed their young, but the 

 jocosa always satisfied their own hunger first, then fed their 

 babies, but as they usually reared their young, one cannot 

 complain of them on that score. 



They had four nests and reared two young on each 

 occasion . 



I was charmed with the tameness of these birds — a 

 young one I had partly hand reared used to fly up and down 

 stairs after me, and bathe on my fingers in ray basin, when 

 I was washing my hands; he used also to run up and down 

 the table at dinner among the silver and dessert "for bread 

 pills, and haying secured one would be off to the clock or 

 curtain to enjoy his repast. He would sit for half an hour 

 at a time on my left wrist while I wrote letters, .singing 

 softly, looking into my face the while. His end was tragic- 

 he was killed by another pair of Bulbuls! 



[Mr. W. E. Teschemaker informs me that several pairs 

 of this species will nest together in the same aviary. — Ed.] 



To he Continued. 



Foreign Birds. 



By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., Etc. 



(Continued frotn page 361, Vol. I., N.S.) 



Chapter III.— Sub-family EUPHONIIN^— Section III. 



This section, consisting of E. violacea and its allies 

 was commenced on page 359 of Vol. I. N.S., with E. violacea, 

 and the following heading was omitted: 



