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These were a grand pair of birds, and save for cut flights, 

 were in marvellous condition for birds just having made a 

 journey from Portugal. Apart from the cut wings, the phmiage 

 was marvellously tight and silken, and the birds entrancing 

 objects to feast the eyes upon. The photos of the Waders' aviary 

 recently reproduced (see February issue) certainly do fiot 

 flatter this enclosure, which in a few months will be a fine 

 sight indeed. Another Wilderness aviary 71ft. x 33ft. was 

 nearly complete and will be ready for the season now ,so 

 near at hand; several of the smaller enclosures are to be 

 amalgamated, so that this season there will be four or five 

 large wilderness enclosures. There are two large bird -rooms 

 for the winter housing of the more delicate species, and there 

 certainly ought to be some notable results. As to the birds 

 apart from these already mentioned I noted in the bird -rooms 

 and aviaries : — 



Tanagees: Magpie, Superb, Gold and Green, Blue, 

 Scarlet, Maroon, Black, and Crimson -crowned. 



Sugar Birds : Eed- throated Blue, Yellow -winged. 

 Purple and Black-headed. 



Finches: Diuca, Jacarini, Black-headed Lined, Rufl- 

 cauda. Painted, Cuba, Pileated, Aurora, Dusky, Gouldian, Par- 

 rot and many others. 



Buntings : Indigo, Hair-crest, Black-headed, and Ked- 

 headed. 



Doves : Of these I noticed Diamond, Passerine, Tal- 

 pacoti. Plumed Ground, but there were many others. 



I also noticed White-crested Touracous, Maroon Orioles, 

 Olive Saltators, Lettered Aracari, Black- headed Sibias, Common 

 Mynahs, Red-breasted Marshbirds, Silver-eared Mesias, Blue- 

 bearded Jays, Brown's Parrakeets, Ceram (Yellow -backed) 

 Lories, and others too numerous to mention. 



Mr. Mathias' Aviaries: These aviaries have also been 

 described, but not fully figured, so that I think a ground plan 

 may be of practical use, as they have been materially in- 

 creased, altered and re-arranged since then. 



Aviary A. — This' is a new erection, only just completed. 

 The heated house is a green -house, which has been lined 

 inside and outside the glass with roofing felt; it is fitted with 

 a range of hot -water pipes and forms admirable winter quar- 



