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weeks. On May 22, 1879, ^ separated them, and placed each in 

 a separate cage. This caused much lamentation. May 24 I 

 hung another breeding box in a new square tinned cage; the 

 edges which were turned toward to the cage, as well as its open- 

 ing, were capped with tin. I lined it with wood shavings mixed 

 with insect powder. I placed the cage, as well as the breeding 

 box, in a gloomy place, and the pair soon became reconciled. 

 On June 17 I noticed a sagging on the female; from this time 

 until the beginning of August she ate much mortar in the morning 

 before she touched food, preferring this to sepia, which she only 

 bedaubed ; she also eagerly crushed limbs of poplar (less so those 

 of willow, and other kinds not at all) , but scarcely touched soaked 

 feed and ant larvae. During the entire breeding time she favored 

 the above mentioned food. She lost many feathers from the 17th 

 to the 2gth of June, almost daily two or three large ones, and on 

 the 28th of June eight ventral feathers. On June 29 I found two 

 ' eggs on the bottom of the cage (not in the breeding-box) . Both 

 birds sat outside of the box in the cage upon the perch. I placed 

 the eggs in the breeding box, they watching. In the afternoon of 

 the same day, the female sat on the bottom of the cage (the male 

 beside her) , having a third egg beneath her. I also took this and 

 placed it in the box, where I found three eggs, four in all. On 

 this day the female lost about twenty ventral feathers. On June 

 30 a fifth egg lay on the bottom of the cage, and this I likewise 

 removed to the breeding box. At ten a. m. the female bathed her 

 head, and both birds remained outside of the box, as well as the 

 whole day of the ist of July. This was very aggravating to me. I 

 looked into the breeding box and found that all the eggs had been 

 picked and sucked ; very likely this was the first set. They were 

 unable to effect copulation in the beginning, in January, which 

 was now accomplished with ease. Between the 2d and 6th of 

 July the female deposited two more eggs, these being the sixth 

 and seventh. These I took away from them, as I was in doubt 

 of good results, to have them hatched by a hen ; they were 

 destroyed, however, through carelessness. 



On July 19 the female laid another egg, and soon after, I do 

 not know when, a ninth and tenth. These three were deposited 

 in the breeding box and now both birds sat on them assiduously, 



