CHAPLER Vii 
A DRAMA AND TRAGEDY IN BIRD LIFE IN GAN 
AVIARY, AND ABTER 
TED has a large aviary, in which he keeps 
several different kinds of birds flying about 
promiscuously. They include turtle doves, 
bramblefinches, linnets, siskins, bullfinches, 
greenfinches, goldfinches, and black-headed 
buntings (or as they are better called, reed 
buntings, see Part I, p. 56, to distinguish 
them from the rare visitor to this country, 
the true black-headed bunting which has a 
yellow breast). I will relate an interesting 
bird drama and tragedy that occurred in the 
aviary last June, the dvamatis personae being 
two pairs of bullfinches. Ted told me that 
to his astonishment and delight one of the 
two pairs of bullfinches had made a nest 
against the brick wall of the aviary in 
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