210 Booh Notices and Reviews. 



Book Notices and Reviews, 



CANABIES^ HyBKIDS, A.\D BlUTlSlI BlED.S TN Cac!'; a.\d 



Aviary. — Gassell and Co. In monthly paa^ts, 7d. net. 



Part XVI. Another good i>art with coloured finntLspiece 

 fig-uriug thiec varieties of Crested Canaries, and many oxcellcnt 

 fig'ures in the text, including one of the Dartford Warbler. The 

 chapter on " Hybi-ids between two British Birds " is completed, and 

 there are others on " Breeding- of Hybiids between two Bi'itish 

 Species " — " British Birds (amenable to Captivity in Cage or Aviary 

 (Twrdida:) " and " Warblei's, Accentoi's, etc. {Sylviidos) ." A prai;- 

 tical and interesting- paa-t. 



Editorial. 



Nesting Notes: The sea;soii is now at its height and 

 from tlie reports to hand some of our members are doing fairly 

 well. 



Malabae Staklikgs (Mynali). Our esteemed mem- 

 ber Miss M. E. Baker, has again tliis year a brood of this 

 species hatched out and doing well — she has been successful 

 in the past in rearing young of this fine and handsome species. 



LiNEOLATED Pakkakeets: Wc canuot call to mind 

 having seen any rejord re the nesting of this interostii\g 

 species. It must be numbered among the species of Farra- 

 keets which line the nest cavity. Miss Baker has a pair 

 which laid two eggs in April and two more in May, unfor- 

 tunately an accident to the lien (dislocated leg) has interfered 

 with possible results. Before the eggs were laid both birds 

 stripped bits of bark off the branches and carried them to the 

 nest receptacle. 



Nesting of the Indian White-eve {Zosterops palpe- 

 hrosa). In my own aviary a pair of this lovely, and ap- 

 parently fragile, but really robust species, have constructed a 

 pocket-shaped nest, fragile looking but strong, and are incuba- 

 ting a clutch of three whitish -blue eggs. The nest is built 

 almost at the tip of a branch of hawthorn (extending some 

 6 feet), which dips down and almost meets the rank grass (some 

 15 to 18 inches high) growing below it. The nest is constructed 

 entirely of hay, lined interiorally with finer and' a few feathers. 

 The pocket is suspended by four ropes of twisted hay, ;atid is 

 about 2^ inches in diameter, by the same depth, the bird being 



