the aviary and leave the Bullfinches in sole possession, I might have had

still greater success. The active hen Chaffinches were generally to the fore

when any misguided insects wandered into the aviary.


Thanking you for your letter and the information contained therein.


Chas. Louis Hew.


TASMANIAN AND SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PARRAKEETS

FOR IMPORTATION.


Sir, —Could you tell me where I could obtain information as to the

Tasmanian and S. Australian Parrots, Parrakeets and small birds. I have

been able to import some privately, but am rather at a loss to know what

would be most suitable and best worth sending over. I should be much

obliged if you could give me some information on the subject.


M. A. Johnstons.



The following answer has been sent to Mrs. Johnstone.


There is no book limited to the aviculture of Australian and

Tasmanian birds.


If you can read German you will find Dr. Carl Russ’ “ Handbuck fur

Vogelliebhaber,” the most useful for your purpose : if not, I am afraid ymu

will have to fall back upon my “ Foreign Bird-Keeping,” in two parts (part

II. not y^et completed) published by the Feathered World : these are the

only two up-to-date works I know of which deal with general aviculture.


If you could import the Painted Finch [Emblema picta), the Australian

Fire-tailed Finch (Zonceginthus bellies), and two or three of the common

species of Pardalotes, these would be prized as much as any of the small

birds of Australia. A. G. BUTTER.



AURITA DOVES AND BRONZE-WINGED PIGEONS.


Sir, —At last my Aurita-doves are sitting steadily, in one of Abrahams’

shallow nests, rammed into a sponge-basket and hung up in one. corner of

the aviary (g).


I found a Bronze-winged Pigeon’s egg, only bruised, on the ground;

so I stuck a bit of stamp-paper over the indented part and have put it

under a White Barbary. Will it hatch ? (h) A. G. BuTTER.



(g) Since the above was written, they have deserted their eggs, the nest being

apparently too much for them.—A.G.B.


My Aurita Doves now breed as freely as Barbary Turtles ; they require much space ;

without it they devote all their energies to fighting.—O.E.C.


( h ) I have often known Pigeons’ eggs thus treated to hatch.—O.E.C.



W. T. Moulton & Co., Printers, Brighton.



