216 Breeding Blue Budgerigars. 



This spring I put into the aviary the 4 Cocks (3/1."; 

 blue), their half-sister (3/16 blue), their mother (7 '8 blue), 

 a Green hen (1/2 blue, 1/2 green), which I bought from 

 Miss Clare, and. a pale Yellow hen. The half sister and 

 brother reared one very good Blue and one Green. A few 

 weeks ago I bought another half Blue and half Green hen 

 from Miss Clare, this bird was only hatched last January, 

 thinking she was too young to -breed 1 put her into the aviary. 

 At the present time all 5 hens have young in the nest (so 

 one of the cocks must have paired with two hens). As far 

 as I can see to-day (some are too young to tell colour) there 

 is another good Blue from half-sister and brother. 



The aviary I built for these birds is facing north, 

 sheltered by a wing of the house from the east, getting a 

 little sun only in the evening. I feed them on 3^ parts canary 

 seed, 2)2 white millet. 2 Jiernp, and a little Provost oats mixed. 

 When they are feeding young I give them scalded game or 

 chicken meal, fruit, seeding grass, and in fact a little bit of 

 almost anything they will eat. 



I always keep a raw carrot impaled on a nail on the 

 seed shelf. 



[We sihall be greatly obliged if Mr. Marsden will kindly 

 report on the young Blues as soon as they have moulted out 

 of the nesting plumage. — Ed.]. 



4 



The Endurance of Birds. 



By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., Etc. 



{Continued from page 102). 



There is quite a gap between the last instalment, and 

 now I cannot maintain proper sequence or any regular method 

 in the list as some of my data are mislaid. I do not propose 

 referring to British species in this list as, of course, they are 

 in their native climate. All these records refer to birds out of 

 doors all thei year round. For the convenience of printing 

 fractions of a year have been dropped. 



Avadavat: Covering 12 pairs, kept between the years 1890 and 1913, 

 the lives of the respective pairs being as follows: 6, 4, 3, 5, 7, 8;, 



