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I find even the tiny Golden -breasted Waxbills and Avadavats like 

 the mealworms and cecto as much as the larger birds do. I give 

 the birds white, Indian and sjDray millet, paddy rice and oats, soft 

 food, cecto and mealworms, ants' eggs (dry now and then) avid dried 

 flies, oranges, apples, grapes or other fruit and green food, now and 

 then a little of Hyde's mixed seed, but they do not eat< much of it'. 

 The above is what the small foreign finches have, of course the 

 Budgerigars, Canaries, British birds and Cardinals have other seed 

 and are not in the same aviary as the Finches. 



In the summer the bath is left on all day, and in thp, winter 

 for an hour or so; in the winter a little warm wviter is added 

 to the bath. Every two or three weeks a little glycerine is added 

 to the drinking water, and now and then Parrish's chemical food'. 



The birds which have the above treatment, and all live to- 

 gether are various Mannikins, Singing Finches, Bishops, Weavers', 

 Cordon Bleus, various Waxbills, Pin-tailed Nonpareils, Spice Birds, 

 Silver'bills, Bengalese, Long-tailed Grassfinches, Combasou, Peki)i 

 Kobins, Euficauda Finches, Cutthroats, Zebra Finches, and Avada- 

 vats. I regret to have so little of interest to redord but hope 

 to have better results another year. 



(Miss) ALFREDA B. SMYTH. 



MARKED BIRDS. 



Sir,' — Possibly it may be of iutei'e.st to readers of Bird Notes 

 to know that I found a Blue Tit, which camie into my room in 

 search of food, and in trying to g-^et out again stunned itself against 

 the window. On i>icking it up I saw a ring on its leg, marked 

 "Aberdeen Univ. 57()": this shows how far these small birds 

 fly, and we have such a number during the winter, that I often 

 wonder where they go during the suinmr-r, and whether the same 

 birds come back year by year. 



(Miss) DOROTHY E. PITHTE. 



Post Mortem Reports. 



For replies by post, a fee of 2s. 6d. tnust he sent; lliis rule 

 will not be brolcen under any condition. 



Post-Mortem Reports can only appear in neat issue ivhen bodies 

 are received by Mr. Gray prior to the 31st of any month. 



It would greatly help to elucidate contagious diseases in birds 

 if members of F.B.C. in sending me dead birds, were to state 

 the source from u^Jiich they obtained the birds and ivhen. The names 

 of the sellers would be kept a secret 



Adult Red -headed Gouldian and 2 young Bi,ack- 

 HEADED GouLDiAK FiNciiEs. (Dr. J. Easton-Scott) . All three 



