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going. The flight is covered with fifteen inches of red ashes. 

 No. 2 Aviary : This was only completed this year 

 and results have only been small up to the present. It is 

 26 feet long, 7 feet high at front, with a glass roof over 20 

 feet of the flight, with a sort of tower (6 feet) at one end, 

 14 feet high. The shelter is not included in photo. In this 

 aviary there are a numlier of growing plants and bushes, such 

 as laurel, holly, elder, hazel, poplar, etc.— the birds build in the 

 most bushy, mostly laurel and poplar. 



This aviary contains no Parrakeets, and among others 

 the following : — 



Bulbuls. Grey Singing Finches. 



Alario Finches. Long-tailed Grasis finches. 



Grenadier Weaver. Orange -cheeked Waxbill. 



Madagascar Weaver. Grey Waxl)ill. 



Orange Weaver Goldfinches. 



Napoleon Weaver. OombaiSsous. 



Red-hilled Weaver. Whydahs,. 



Green Singing Finches. 



and many other Finches. 



Though the aviary is of such recent construction, Long- 

 tailed Gras3flnches, Cutthroats and cross-mated Brown Linnet x 

 Grey Singing Finch have nested. 



The Long -tailed Grass finches and Cutthroats success- 

 fully reared their young. 



I have also had eggs from Avadavats and Orange - 

 cheeked Waxbills, but they did not incubate. 



Cross Mating Results : Brown Linnet x Grey Sing- 

 ing Finch. — A nest was duly built and five eggs were laid 

 of which only one was fertile and duly hatched out, unfortun- 

 ately the young bird died when five weeks old. It resembled 

 the Brown Linnet in colour, but was about the same gize 

 and shape of the Grey Singing Finch. 



Canary x Grey Singing Finch : The result of this union 

 was three young birds, of which one (the only cock and a 

 fine singer) got drowned in the fountain. These hybrids re- 

 sembled the Canary in build and were greyish -brown in colour, 

 splashed with yellow on the flights. 



Alario Finch x Grey Singing Finch : These birds 

 duly nested and laid, but did not incubate. 



As regards food I supply mixed canary, white millet. 



