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complain about breeding successes. There are usually at least

two pairs of Parrakeets breeding or thinking about it in the

Finch Aviary, but I cannot recommend this mixture without

careful watching. My Mealy Rosellas brought four broods in

rapid succession without a mishap to the weaker inmates. Then

the cock wished to go on, but the hen thought she had done her

duty and I paid dearly for not watching the cock more carefully

or, to be more accurate, for disregarding the signs of a storm

brewing. I think that the inmates of my aviaries will best be

shown by giving my breeding results, successful or otherwise,

from June 1905 to March 1908.


Meal)’’ Rosellas, one pair successfully reared eighteen in

four broods between April, 1906, and April, 1907. They showed

signs of wanting to nest again in March, 1908.


Cockatiels have bred continuously (or nearly so) since

April, 1905, seldom rearing more than three at a time.


Budgerigars, Green and Yellow, have bred ad lib. at all

seasons.


Madagascar Lovebirds, one pair, have reared two broods

in each of the two cold weathers I have had them.


Blue-winged Parrotlets : the hen several times retired to

nest boxes for three weeks at a time but never even laid, so I

parted with the only pair I had. I must say I do like allowing

birds to make their own choice of mates, even one alternative

mate is something.


Blue-crowned Hanging Parrakeets and Musky Lorikeets

I believe would have got as far as eggs this year had I not

come home in March.


It was only in April, 1907, that I was able to procure

(through the kindness of Mr. Ezra) cock Rosellas and hen Red-

rumps, both of these were ardently wishing to nest when I left.

Other Parrakeets have had no chance of nesting.


True Finches do not appeal to me much, and I have not

paid them much attention and, probably for this reason, have no

successes to record. Even Canaries, with which I did take some

trouble, have reared very few. The handsome Desert Finch

(also called Trumpeter Bullfinch) I believe from Afghanistan



