Breeding Red-naped Lorikeets. 215 



My Red-napeds are housed in a fair sized aviary witii outdoor 

 flight. They get one kind of food only, viz; the food I have 

 often mentioned, composed of Marmite, Afellin's Food, and 

 H or lick's milk, with a very small amount of sponge cake 

 added. They also eat a considerable amount of the grass 

 growing in the flight, especially while rearing young. "1 know 

 I am going against 'all the pundits when I condemn milk sop, 

 but I hate the stuft' and have not used milk for years. If I 

 buy a honey-eating bird of any, kind that has been fed on 

 milk 1 never feel comfortable about it, till I have had it long 

 enough to be sure that its liver is not diseased. I go so far 

 as to say tha^t I would always give more for a honey-eating 

 bird that had been imported on a nourishing liquid food, other 

 than cow's milk, than' I would give for one imported on the 

 usual milk sop. 



Breeding blue Buderigars. 



By J. W. Marsden. 



In 1 91 4 1 bought a green hen from Mr. Pulsford 

 of Paignton, bred as under : 



Blue Cock Green Hen. 



1 

 Same Blue Cock — Gieen Hen. Green Cock — Yellow lien 



I I 



Green Cock Green Hen 



I 

 Green Hen. 



3/8 Blue, 3/8 Green, 1/4 yellow. 



I then picked out from a lot of Greens two cocks and 

 one hen with as much blue and as pale in yellow as I could 

 find. From the Blue-bred hen and one of these cocks I 

 reared one hen (3/16 blue, 11/16 green, 18 yellow). From 

 several reared by above other pair 1 picked out all that were 

 bluest in nest feathers (I findj from ordinary Greens some 

 young are bluer in nest feathers than others, but they appear 

 10 moult the same) . 



In 191 5 I paired the original 3/8 Blue-bred hen with 

 one ol the selected cocks — result 4 cocks (3/16 blue, 11/16 

 green^ 1/8 yellow). 



