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did not rear them. The hen Gouldian died, and later 

 on the Hen Parrot Finch sitting on eggs, also died. 

 The Posi Mortem Report said pneumonia. The Zebras 

 hatched but the young all died. The Trumpeter Bull- 

 finches hatched four young ones and they were fully 

 fledged and flying, but she then did not feed them 

 after they left the nest, and they died. Other 3'ears she 

 has quite reared them. I then sold them. The old pair 

 of Long-Tailed Grassfinches nested, but without result. 

 A pair of Pectoralis also nested in a box bush but I 

 saw no eggs, and the cock has since died. 



The floor of the outside aviary is gravelled over ; 

 in No. 2 there are five bushy little box trees. In the 

 shelters I use sand. They have an unlimited supply 

 of food, sunflower and crushed hemp, difl'erent varie- 

 ties of millet, canary, and always soft food, and in 

 summer they get milk-sop ; chickweed, groundsel, 

 flowering grasses and lettuce are supplied during the 

 summer months only. I find most birds are very fond 

 of sweet oranges. I found with my old original pair 

 of Virginian Cardinals that I could not give them 

 mealworms or they ate their young ones. I kept a 

 young hen, which was reared by this pair last year, 

 and obtained a very large mate for her. The old 

 Cardinals had always lived peacefully in No. 2 aviary, 

 but the old cock was so annoyed at seeing the young 

 one next door that he turned vicious and killed five 

 young Canaries, so I removed him : his mate I am 

 sorry to say died this autumn ; they had been in my 

 possession many years. The hen had two or three 

 nests, but sat too close and did not feed the young 

 ones. 



I have a pair of lovely Crimson-wing Parrakeets 



