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in a branch of a tree in the bird-room. It was cup- 

 shaped, about two inches deep and two and a half 

 wide, made of bass and strips of paper, threads of 

 cotton, and bits of wool and feathers, loosely woven 

 together, and lined with agave fibres. In this three 

 eggs were laid, bluish-white, with reddish-brown spots 

 at the larger end. Both birds sat in turn, for twelve 

 days, the cock chiefly by day, singing much in the 

 twilight. Two young birds were hatched : both 

 parents fed them, and picked up eagerly all the flies 

 they could find in the rooms, and mealworms, and on 

 these, as well as the mixed food of egg, bread, and 

 ants' eggs, supplied to them, they reared their young. 

 These were of a duller colour than the old birds, but 

 showed the markings on the wings early. 



The success of this first attempt inspired other 

 amateurs, and many of these birds have been bred 

 since in Germany in aviaries, and also in large cages, 

 large enough to contain a tree in a flower-pot. 



Several other species of the Leiothrix are found 

 in the Himalayas and in China, where they are fre- 

 quently kept as cage birds. In the spring of last year 

 Dr. Karl Russ received from London a pair of the 

 BLUE-WINGED species (Leiothrix cyanonropter a), which 

 he describes as brown, with broad blue bands on the 

 wings, the under part of the body brownish-yellow, 

 and the beak bright yellow. He thinks that these 

 will prove a great addition to our cage birds. 



