74 Leadenham Aviary 'Notes, 1912. 



out in the deluging rains of July and August, during which tico 

 mo)ilhs we had here over ten inchesl When feeding the young 

 they (especially the 9) ^''e never still, catching midges all over 

 the wire of the aviary without ceasing, and they appear to rear 

 their young on theise entirely at first, using more canary .seed as 

 the chiekf; grow older. No '.withstanding all this hard work of 

 five or six nests, four broods reared and the weather, they 

 ■appeared none the worse, in fact are as sprightly as ever, and I 

 hope they may do the same this year, but it is almost too 

 much to expect of them! Another pair of Olives in the next 

 aviary reared two young, but one of these and one of above 

 pairs were drowned I bcii^ve by the heavy rains. At the 

 next attempt the 9 o^ this latter pair became egg-bound; 

 I brought her in and she lejovered. They nested again, but 

 did not hatch out any mo/e; on November 29th, the cT died; 

 the 9 is still well and lively! 



July 18. Cuba Finches (Phofiipara canora), had 

 reared two young and were aga'n sitting on four or five eggs in 

 a nest built in a hop; on August 2nd they had hatched, but 

 on 4th the nest was empty! 



July 23. Canary (cf) after two other attempts was 

 hatching young in pigeon hole in shelter shed, and on 12th 

 three Grey Singing-Finch x Canary hybrids left the nest; 

 one of these subsequently died, and has b&en described in 

 '* B.N." On September 4th the Singing-Finch was still feeding 

 them, and on 28th one began to sing. I have now got this 

 bird in a cage in the house, and he sings divinely all day. 



September 3rd. Geenadjee Weaver (cT) began to go 

 out of colour. I Tound that a supposed 9 Pelzeln's Saffron 

 Finch proved to be a cock after the moult. 



October 11th. A Zebea Finch (cT) bred this summer 

 by pair described above, having paired with a bought hen, 

 had three young in nest, which flew on 26th. 



Madaoascae {Foudia madagascariensis) and Napoleon 

 (/'. afro) Weavers (cTs) began to go out of colour on the last 

 named date, and both of these have been since murdered— 

 the assassin is not yet identified! 



Only one other peculiar happening have I to relate, 

 viz., that a Blue-winged Lovebird (cf) and St. Helena Seed- 



