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soon breaks), and as it was placed quite near the nest, I 

 liad ample opportunity of watching the birds feeding 

 their young in the early morning. The latter are 

 without the crimson eye-tufts. 



When looking over the aviaries at Toddington 

 Manor a few weeks ago — through the kindness of our 

 member, Mrs. Warren Vernon — I saw a fine pair of 

 these beautiful birds fijnng in a large bird-room quite 

 harmoniously with a number of smaller birds. All the 

 Bulbuls can be easily kept in confinement upon any 

 good insectivorous food with plenty of ripe fruit. They 

 are also fond of milk. A child I knew in Calcutta who 

 kept several tame Bulbuls used to ofier them milk 

 every evening in a tea-spoon, from which they drank 

 with great relish. 



IRcstino of Serimis anoolcnsis. 



The Yellow-rumped Serin. 



By W. E. TeschemakER, B.A. 



The subject of the following notes is one of those 

 charming little songsters of the Serin family with 

 which our South African Colonies are so well 

 endowed. Its range is somewhat extensive, but it 

 appears to be especially plentiful in the Brandfort, 

 Kroonstadt, and Pretoria districts. 



Mr. A. H. Evans in a paper contributed to the 

 " Ibis" (Vol. VI. No. 22) mentions having met with it 

 in September, 1905, on kopjes in the Magaliesberg 

 range. Locally it appears to be called the " Black- 

 throated Seedeater" — apparently on the liiais a non 

 lucendo principle, for its throat is certainly not black 

 nor even blackish. In size and general appearance it 



