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In April 1899 I purchased a pair of Cockatiels 

 which raised a numerous progeny 3^ear after year for 

 several 5^ears, when the hen ceased to lay for two years 

 in succession. I therefore obtained another hen to- 

 wards the end of 1905 and mated her to the old cock. 

 They produced eleven young last year and eight this, 

 so the old cock does not owe me much for his keep. 

 My Cockatiels have been the best of parents and have 

 always reared all the young hatched. 



I think that the wet summer we have experienced 

 has been very unfavourable to young birds, and for 

 the first time for the last seven or eight years I have 

 no young Redrumps. The single pair I now possess 

 went to nest as usual and hatched three young, but 

 only one left the nest and this bird — a cock — died 

 shortly after, having been weakly from the first. In 

 previous years I have always reared from three to a 

 dozen Redrumps each year as the progeny of two or 

 three breeding pairs flying together iu the same aviary. 

 Redrumps are great favourites of mine. They are 

 said to be quarrelsome, but I have never found them 

 interfere with other Parrakeets, although at the com- 

 mencement of the breeding season, before the hens 

 settle down to the serious work of incubation, the cocks 

 squabble amongst themselves, but never with any 

 serious results. For quarrelsomeness and real love 

 of fighting Blue Bonnets " take the cake," and I wotild 

 not now place these birds in the same aviary with any 

 others however large. Peace may reign for a while, 

 but sooner or later some bird will be found dead or 

 mangled, as the result of a sudden access of murderotis 

 frenzy on the part of a Blue Bonnet. My first Blue 

 Bonnet — the survivor of a pair bought from a dealer — 



