160 SPOLIA ZWYLANICA. 
A domestic chick could not do this at such an age. It was 
fed on broken paddy, canary seed, white ants, and chopped onions. 
After being in the run a week it began to pine and'mope. The 
mother then seemed to neglect it, and the cock was seem to peck 
it several times when feeding. It died on 21st September, being 
eighteen days old. 
After this the hybrid hen laid again and laid fifteen eggs. The 
first nine were removed and set in an incubator; the next six 
were at first set under the hybrid hen, but she forsook them, and 
so they were put under a common hen. These eggs were hardly 
expected to be fertile, as the cock bird for some weeks had been 
very far from well, suffering from a severe cold. However, 
one of the eggs in the incubator was addled, and the remaining 
eight were clear. 
Some days later, 24th November, 1906, those (six) set under the 
hen produced one healthy little chick, the other five eggs being 
quite clear. 
This chicken was exceedingly small in size, resembling that 
of a black-breasted red game bantam. In colouring it was much 
darker than the previous chick of the same parentage. It was 
of a decided brown colour with a broad band of a darker brown 
on the head and down the back. It feathered rapidly like the 
previous one, and seemed very well, but a solitary chick with a 
mother hen has not a good chance of life. On 5th December 
it died rather suddenly, aged twelve days, the cause being un- 
known. 
The next batch of eight eggs laid were set under a common 
hen in December, 1906. Seven eggs were quite clear, while the 
eighth had a full-term dead chick in the shell; the shell had 
not been * pipped.”’ 
Nine eggs were set early in January, 1907, under a common 
hen, but all these proved clear. 
Ten eggs were set later in January in an incubator, but all ten 
proved clear. 
Early in February, 1907, thirteen eggs were set under a common 
hen. None hatched out. Nine were clear, two were addled, 
one had an early embryo dead in it, and the remaining egg had a 
full-term dead chick in the shell ; the shell had not been ‘“‘ pipped.” 
Later, in February, 1907, seven eggs were set. None hatched 
out. Five were clear, one egg had a dead chick of about thirteen 
days old in it, and the remaining egg had a dead chick of 
about sixteen or seventeen days old. 
Early in March, 1907, five eggs were placed in an incubator, 
but all five proved clear, infertile. 
In April, 1907, she laid ten more eggs and showed no sign of 
going broody. The eggs were set. Nine proved clear; one had a 
full-term dead chick in the shell. . 
