40 Correspondence. 



attention they received. This leaves me in the position of only being able 

 to say that such and such young were reared by their being noted on 

 the wing or at the food trays. 



In the aviary were a .^pair of Bullfinches, and a cock Hawfinch; 

 the former reared a Ijiood,, and the latter a single young one, of which, 

 from its appearance, i am certain only the hen bullfinch could have been 

 the mother. 



The young hybrid resembled the hawfinch in regard to the markings 

 of us plumage, but the bullfinch as to size, and was totally different ia 

 appearance to the young pure-bred bullfinches. In shape also it favoured 

 the bullfinch, but hatl the large head and beak of the hawfinch. It had 

 no pink on the breast and was marked like the hawfinch. 



The only points of confirmation 1 can .give are : that the pair 

 of bullfinches and the odd cock hawfinch always associated together^ 

 both before nesting and afterwards, and I assume the young hybrid and 

 bullfinches formed one brood, which was jointly reared by the three 

 adults named above. 



The large, unnoticed hole m the netting through which the hybrid, 

 its father, and a hen bullfinch escaped, was an echo of the terriblel 

 storm at the end of last year — and these extra losses add much, to thel 

 tale of woe I told in the last issue of our journal. At' last I have 

 been able to get some one to make the damage good. 



I do not know whether I have told you enough about the hybrid, 

 but, never expecting such, 1 took no notice of the bullfinches' nesting 

 arrangements until 1 saw the young one flying about, quite different 

 from ihu other yuuoj^ bullfinches, yet forming one of the same family 

 party. 



Guildford, Surrey, i7-i-'i7. (Mrs. C. .A. Longdonl. 



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