92 Correspondence. 



"cannot but prove of marked value to practitionei'S interested ia 



" thie diseases of this animal." 



Fr,om the prospectus <his work should appeal to medical men, 

 sportsmen, stockowners, aviculturists, pisciculturists, dog- and poultry- 

 breeders, cattle, sheep, and horse-owners, and county g-entlemen, as 

 well as to veterinary surgeons, for whom the work is mainly intended. 

 The first volume deals with the microbial or contagious diseases. 



Correspondence. 



THE RUSTY-CHEEKED SCIMITAR BABBLER {Pomatorhl/uis eii/thioqenys), 

 ETC. 



SiK, — In reply to your request for a photo of the nest, which 

 my Kusty-cheeked Babblers have just built, I am sorry that I cannot 

 manage this for you, as a pair of my hybrid Californian Squamata 

 Quail have selected it for a roosting place, and it has now lost all 

 shape. I have not tlie least doubt but that the Babblers will soon try 

 again; especially if this mild weather lasts. They are very interest- 

 ing birds, and the cock has already been figured in "B.N." [Foi the 

 benefit of new readers we repeat the plate. — Ed.]. He is very at- 

 tached to the hen, and it is amusing to see him with half-a-dozen 

 mealworms in his sickle-shaped bill feeding her. The nest they 

 made was a very untidy sti^ucture, the material used being mostly the 

 leaves and fibrous roots of the Artichoke. It measured about eight- 

 een inches across and was six inches deep. It was at first quite open 

 at the top jike a Blackbird's nest, but finally they half -domed it, leaving' 

 a laige opening on the top side. These birds are great foragers, and 

 must find a good deal of their food naturally. 1 nave gi^eat hopes of 

 raising young from them this summer. 



Another interesting pair of birds that are now nesting are 

 my Black-winged Grackles (Graculipica melmioptera) . They have 

 built a nest in one of my Porrot nesting boxes ; straw, small sticks, 

 paper, etc., were the materials used. Should they go further with it I 

 will let you have particulars. I have also Black -cheeked Lovebirds, 

 Cockateels, Bronze-wing and Brush Bronze-wing Pigeons incubating. 

 The young birds will probably arrive just when our real winter is com- 

 mencir g ! 



Very truly yours, 

 Beyers House, fWestbury, WM. SHORE BAILY. 



February 9, 1913. 



NO PINK BIRDS 



Sib,— Has it ever occurred to anyone elsei, I ■wonder! Revel- 

 ling in the exquisite colouring one finds in birds, as I do, how rarely 

 onie sees pink, or even anything approaching it. 



