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Season 1915 /// Boycrs House Aviaries. 



Slill a large proportion arc 



more insiduous foe pneumonia. 



still living and doing well. 



Parrots: Of these, the Ro.s(>Ila Parrakeets, were the 



niost successful, fully 

 rearing two broods of six 

 and five respectively. A 

 ( 10 s-mated pair of Red 

 and Mealy Rosellas also 

 reared a fine pair of 

 young ones, which were 

 much larger than pure 

 bred birds at the same 

 age. In colour they were 

 much paler than young 

 Rosellas j unfortunately I 

 lost them both from pneu- 

 monia. 



The Alexandrines 

 —our illustration figures 

 Phni.^hii W.Shurr Hnihi. ^'"^ of them at the mouth 

 Alexandrine ranakeet. of their " Banjo-nest box" 



— although they nested twice, only reared two young ones, but 

 these were very fine specimens. In December the hen again 

 went to nest, and at time of penning" these notes is incubating 

 a clutch of eggs. The story of the nesting of the Brown- 

 cared Conures has already been told in " B.N." I sold them 

 all to a well known dealer about the middle of September, 

 to find, after the birds were gone, that the hen had commenced 

 laying again, so I lost a chance here of a second brood. 



The Black-cheeked Lovebirds were a failure; only one 

 young bird left the nest, and this was killed by a Quaker 

 Parrakcet, who also accounted for the adult hen. 



My Madagascar Lovebirds nested four times, five young 

 ones being fully reared. 



I was disappointed in my Speckled Conures (C. eiiops) ; 

 tliey took possession of a nest box, but although I saw them 

 pair on more than one occasion, no eggs were laid. 



Petz's Conures, Canary^wing, and Tui Parrakeets made 



