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them into the garden aviary next month. Are they hardy enough birds for

out of doors ? Any information on the subject will oblige.


H. E. Goddard.



The following reply was sent to Mr. Goddard.



I should advise your adding bread, soaked in warm water, to the

canary and hempseed you are giving your Parrakeets (of course, in a

separate tin). Add millet, if you like, and some pea-nuts.


I would not put them out until the end of May, at the earliest; and,

for this year, I would take them in again towards the end of August. Next

year you might put them out rather earlier, and leave them out altogether.



1900.



They will not, probably, be in full colour until after their moult in


F. G. Dutton.



AN INVITATION.


Sir, — I think it would be rather nice if members, who do not object

to do so, would signify their willingness, in these columns, to show their

aviaries to other members whenever they might happen to be in their

neighbourhood. For myself, I should always be glad to exhibit my small

collection to any member visitor to Hastings or St. Leonard’s, who might be

taking a drive in the vicinity of St. Helen's Lodge (c).


E. A. H. Harti.ry.



AGES ATTAINED BY BIRDS IN CAPTIVITY.


Sir,—T here was so little response to Mr. Meade-Waldo’s suggestion

to communicate cases of longevity of birds in confinement, that I venture

to send some of mine, though I did not deem them of sufficient interest

until I found there was only one other communication, and that your own.


Last month there died, in my aviary, a little cock Cockatiel, which I

bred in my aviary nineteen years ago next month (May). Until last year

he always went by the name of “young Joey,” in order to distinguish him

from his father, who was then killed, I regret to say, by another Parrakeet.

In January, 1880, I bought him from a lady who wrote that she “was

pleased her old Joey was going to a good home.” So if he were “ old ” then

there is no saying how old he was when he died.


I have at present in the aviary a common Red-billed Weaver, which

I brought with me from my old home in Lincolnshire, eleven years ago

this month ; I do not know how long I had had him then, but not more

than a year or two.



(c) I do not think any aviculturist is likely to object to this. I am always glad to let

anyone who is interested in birds see my aviaries, provided I am there to receive them :

naturally it is not desirable that strangers should walk in on a tour of inspection in the

absence of the owner.—A. G. B.



