30S Visits to Mrmhrrs' Aviaries. 



had a ' hipped wing,' and hoped to be able to cure her. Ko 

 improvement has taken place, but although she cannot rise more 

 than a foot from the ground, she always appears bright and 

 well." " This year to reward me for procuring her a mate 

 she built a nest, six feet from the ground. Each piece'' of 

 nesting material was conveyed to its destination Ijy a process 

 of climing and jumping up the wire netting." " Out of two 

 nests one young bird was fully reared." 



Parrot Finches: This, another beautiful and scarce 

 Grassfinch has proved a great source of disappointment and 

 also loss to many of its admirers. " My birds brought oIT 

 two l>roods of young, only two in each case, of Avhich the 

 first two had died unaccountably when six or seven Aveeks 

 old." 



Yellow -winged Sugarbirds: " Very beautiful and in- 

 teresting luit, they thought more of their milk-sop and fruit 

 than they did of their matrimonial obligations. They were 

 out in the early part of the year when the thermometer regis- 

 tered frost on several nights, and I could not see that they 

 were any the worse for their experience. I have since parted 

 with them to a fellow member." 



By Dr. Maurice Amsler. 



The season, which began most promisingly has proved 

 singularly disappointing. 



At the end of May I had more than a dozen different 

 species incubating clutches of eggs and now the season is 

 over I have hardly that number of youngsters to show. The 

 dry weather is certainly blameal)le for chicks dead in shell, 

 ])ut I think that infertile eggs (and of course young birds 

 thrown out of the nest) were mostly due to the nocturnal wan- 

 derings of mice, with which I was this year over -run. I tried 

 Dany/i and Liverpool Virus without any improvement, this 

 autumn, however, I have effected a complete clearance by plac- 

 ing, in safe places, canary seed which I had soaked in a 

 strong solution of Strychnine. 



On several occasions I have picked up dead mice in 

 the seed dish — I think that one seed does the trick, so it be- 

 hoves one to be careful in safe guarding one's birds. 



Some time back there was a discussion in the avicul- 



