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perpendicularly down on their proy. citlicr from a liigh or 

 low o!ovatio!i. Iml in ritlicr ca-^c it i^ not often tlial tlioy are- 

 Avholly siibinei-i^ed. Tiiere i- no pi'ettiei' or more inlerostin."' 

 si-ht tiiaii to eome a-nxs a -I'oup of Tov\\< so o.-cur-ierl. 

 To he r())>fi»iir(J 



Hybrid Geese, 



By OArT.ATx J. Shkkakd Reeve, F.Z.S. 



The fovos- haA-in,!,' taken the la^t of my Chinese Geese 

 (Ci/rnnp-is ri/cHoi(h's). the g'anders wore noticed to be mating 

 with the Canada Geese (Branta rcmrrlensis). Uvn of wliich 

 duly laid eg.i^s; one hatched out one younj^r ono and the otlicr 

 three. They were attended to by the old birds and soon joined: 

 with the other Canada Geese, a pair of which had previously 

 hatched out five goslings, which can now be hardly dis- 

 tinguished from the adults. 



I should be interested to hear wheHier sucli a cross has 

 been bred before. 



The young Chinese x Canada Geese may at present be 

 described as follows :— In all respects like Canadas. except 

 the head and neek. these parts being smoky instead of black 

 and white: white mark on head dirty, light markings on fea- 

 thei-^ of winus and ba-'k ]^racti"ally absent; legs dirty yellow 

 (neither black nor orange). From the above it will be 

 gathered that the general appearance of these birds is smoky - 

 grey: the principal plumatic characte>*istics of both species 

 being lost in the cross. 



fTf there should be anv further change in the plumage 

 of the hybrids, as they mature, it would l>e of general interest 

 if Captain TJeevo will record same. — En.]. 



Bird Keeping under Difficulties and Aviary Notes. 



By Lieut. F. M. Littlepale. 



My first purchase of Foreign Birds was in August, 

 1011. I soon caught the craze, though I had only kept one 

 oi- two Parrots previou-^ly. and was not very much interested 

 in birds. 



Th^ suni7iier of 1911 was very hot, so T made a very 



