84 The Aviaries at Rowidhay Park. 



Red-billed (Quelea queUa) und Black-faced Weavers, Orange 

 Bishops (Pyromelana /yaweisca^a;, Lemon (Napoleon) Bishops 

 (F. afra). Bed (Madagascar) Bishops {F . madugascariemis), 

 Paradise Whydahs, (6'. paradisea), many varieties of Finches, 

 including: Singingfinches, Silverbills, Golden -breasted (S. 

 subfiava), Orange-cheeked {S. melpodus), and St. Helena 

 Waxbilis {Estrilda astrilda); Cordon Bleu {E. phoenicotis), 

 Combasous {Hypochera aeweo), Crimson Ears {E. cinerea), Cut- 

 throats, Amumm S. cunadava), Yellow-shouldered Weaver- 

 bird (P. cai)ensis^. Canaries of mr.ny varieties, and others. 

 The British birds include: Bullfinches, Linnets, Redpolls, and 

 other hard -billed species. 



Difficulties have arisen m connection with the delicate 

 foreign Finches, and losses have carried off some birds of 

 handsome colour, such as Cordon Bleus, Firefinches, &c., that 

 were not used to "fogs" and consistently bad weather. Un- 

 fortunately birds ^.rriving in this country from tropical climates 

 are in such bad condition that it is impossible to have small 

 foreign birds without having numbers of deaths, before the 

 BtrougesL become acclimatised. 



The left-hand side (B) of the aviaries is kept solely 

 for Gold and Silver Pheasants, and Laughing Pigeons from 

 the Holy Land. 



I desire to record the valuable help given by Mr, 

 AUsopp, the courteous Superintendent of the Park, and his 

 assistants, in the construction and management— and in the 

 care displayed by attending to the welfare of the birds— and 

 lam conscious "that this aviary in the public park at Roundhay, 

 has been the means of conveying to the people of Leeds 

 and district, a more extensive and accurate knowledge of 

 the habits of many different and beautiful species of small 

 British and Foreign birds, than previously existed. 



Birds of the Sal Forest 



By Douglas Dewak, I.C.S. 

 To my mind the most striking feature of a sal forest 

 is the abruptness with which it begins and ends. It does 

 not merge gradually into the cultivated land, but rises up, 

 like an. immense building, at the margins of the cultivated 

 fields. 



