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side, save where it is broken by the aviary at right angles in the

centre, a Thuja hedge is planted in the pheasantries next to it,

which, in time, will be a great protection. Along the whole

South side, and here within the wire, is planted a privet hedge

(:Ligustrum ovalifolium ) which turns the corners at both ends.

Various other bowers-to-be are planted, and some quite big

shrubs are doing well. Towards the two ends, East and West,

are limes destined to be cut into arcades as one sees them on the

shores of Swiss and Italian Takes.


Creepers have not been forgotten. Travellers in Japan

record that we hardly know what wistarias are till we have sat

under them in Japanese tea gardens. Wistarias are planted to

grow up the side posts and, it is hoped, one day to meet over

head. But I am making too long a story of what, after all, is

only a modest aviary containing about 16,000 cubic feet.


Within eight days of the Doves having been turned into

it, there were several nests, some of them made by birds which,

poor things ! have never before been able to nest. There is, too,

very little squabbling, simply because those who don’t like each

other can keep apart. There are a couple of coops with small

Pheasants within it, which neither interfere nor are interfered

with.


I should add that, on all sides, there is a second line of

defence, i.e., other enclosures, which add to the safety of “ The

Paradise.” It is conspicuous from the windows of the old

“folly”—of the last century; probably late in the twentieth

century, if some of its trees survive, it too will be called “the

folly” of a strange aviculturist of the nineteenth century.



THE GOLDEN-SHOULDERED PARRAKEET.


(Psephotus chrysopterygirisJ.


By Reginald Phillipps.


Those of our members who are interested in Parrakeets

may remember that, in July, 1898, fsee vol. iv.,/>. 155J I mentioned

having shut up a female of this species with a young male

Redrump.


Tater in the year, having disposed of those Parrakeets

which would have persecuted these birds, I loosed them in the

birdroom with garden attachment.


I had failed to obtain a male Golden-shoulder; but the

female and the Redrump became inseparable friends.


In the spring of this year I noticed, day after day, feathers



