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were fed by the parents on chopped fish and small pieces of meat,

on which diet the surviving bird is growing enormously.


We have reated a brood of six Black-tailed Water Hens

[Tribonyx ventralis) using a bantam as a foster mother.


Waterfowl seem to be very backward with us this year, for

what reason I know not unless the dry weather has anything to do

with it. Very few of the Ducks are laying and I am afraid we

shall not have such a good season as we had last year. The

Upland Geese have produced a brood of six strong goslings, and

the Variegated Sheldrakes or New Zealand Paradise Ducks have

four young ones. P'ive Carolina Ducks, four Egyptian Geese

and the three Chestnut-breasted Teal, mentioned last month,

complete the list of Waterfowl up to the present.


The young Pheasants make a better show. We have quite

a number of Sonnerat’s Jungle P'owls, also a brood of hybrids

between the distinct Javan Jungle Fowl and the Red Jungle

Fowl, three young Horned Tragopans, Swinhoe’s Elliot’s

Black-backed Kalij, Reeves and Golden Pheasants.


In the new Summer Aviary ” many species are nesting

and some of the doves have young, but I shall hope to be able

to report more fully on this next month. D. S-S.



THE FORTHCOMING RECEPTION OF MEMBERS.


In the March issue of this Magazine it was announced

that the Council proposed to hold a friendly and informal re¬

ception of the Members of the Society early in July. At the

request, however, of the President, Canon Dutton, the date has

been altered and Friday , June 21 st has been decided upon.

Members are requested therefore to take notice that the reception,

followed by tea , will be held at 4 o' clock on that date 1In the Fellows'

Tea Pavilion in the Zoological Gardens. Since it is necessary to

know beforehand the numbers likely to attend, members who

wish to be present are asked to inform the Hon. Secretary as

early as possible in June, making use for that purpose of the

addressed post card enclosed with their copy of the Magazine.


R. I. Pocock, H’on. Secretary.



