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The present volume contains a number of contributions 

 filled with practical hints and advice on the care and health 

 of birds in captivity from Messrs. Amsler, A. J. Butler, 

 C. B. Smith, Teschemaker, Miss Alderson, and many 

 another. 



Mr. St. Quintin sends an interesting account of his 

 successful efforts to get his Little Bustards to breed, though 

 he has never yet been able to induce his Great Bustards to 

 do so. Since 1886 he has never been without examples 

 of the latter in his aviaries in Yorkshire. He states that 

 he believes Otis tetrax is monogamous and that it lays three 

 eggs only. The young of both sexes are indistinguishable 

 from the female during the first year^ and the young males 

 begiu to show their distinctive markings at about fifteen 

 months. 



Another well-ktiown aviculturist, Mr. Blaauw, has been 

 successful in breeding the South American Black-faced Ibis, 

 Theristicus melanops ; one of the pair had been brought to 

 Eui'ope by Mr. Blaauw himself from Punta Arenas in the 

 Straits of Magellan, and he gives a photograph of the young 

 bird. 



From the pen of Lady William Cecil there is an article 

 on the American Warblers, a group of birds seldom seen in 

 captivity and little known to bird-lovers in the Old World, 

 but great favourites among our American cousins for the 

 beauty of their plumage and song. A furtlier paper deals 

 with the Greenlets or Vireos, also a sweet-voiced family. 



The coloured plates of the present volume illustrate 

 Xanthoura cyanocapilla, the Guatemalan Jay, with a note 

 by the editor, Bernicla ruficollis from a picture in the 

 possession of the Duchess of Bedford, also with a note by 

 the editor, and, finally, on one plate, two rare South 

 American birds, Calliste cyanopygia and Compsocoma nota- 

 bilis, painted by Mr. Rowland Green from living examples 

 in the aviary of Mr. E. J. Brook. 



Dr. Hopkinson has compiled a useful list of the published 

 coloured plates of Parrots arranged in systematic order, 

 and the new editor, Mr. Renshaw, has two articles on the 



