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Breeding of the Yellow Conure.



a Great Bustard. My male bird is impudently, the liens gently

tame. Of course the fact that they are actually in the garden

itself is greatly in their favour ; for all day long they see the men

at work, or people passing along the paths by their enclosure.


Twice each morning five greyhounds go by that way,

and then the male Bustard runs up to the wire wall of his lawn

and challenges them. I believe in all their world there is but one

thing of which they are really afraid (though they are rather

shy of the children) and that one is the Chow-Chow “Muffin,”

The) 7 have never grown even a little used to her. The very first

time she came tearing down the path they fled, and ever since

have held her in deadly fear. I feel sure they take her for a fox.


And the children ? Well children dart about un¬

accountably and have frocks that whisk and whirl.



BREEDING OF THE YELLOW CONURE.


Conurus solstitialis.


While looking up facts respecting the Connies for the second volume

of the book now in hand (Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary ) I came across

an account of the successful breeding in captivity of C. solstitialis in Russ’

“ Handbuch fiir Vogelliebliaber,” pp. 200 and 201. The account runs as

follows: —


“Bred in 18S3 by Madame de Cerville of Rouen (France). M. H.

Gadeau de Cerville states that a pair was in the possession of his wife, from

1872 ; which in summer was confined in an open-air aviary ; from October

to April in a heated room. For four years the female did not lay in the

aviary, but during the following four years laid no less than 29 eggs, four to

six to a clutch. When, in 1881, the male died, it was immediately replaced,

and this pair, after two years nested successfully.


The female laid four eggs in July and three in August; incubated

alone; the duration of incubation was three weeks. The young were fed

by both male and female; they remained in the nest-box three months.

Nestling down short, whitish grey.


At four months the young plumage was green above, slightly mixed

with yellow ; wing- and tail-feathers pale yellow at base, deep blue at tips ;

crown, back of head, and sides of head orange-yellow, more or less greenish ;

under surface greenish yellow; abdomen pale red; eyes dark brown ; naked

orbital ring pale flesh coloured, encircled by reddish feathers; beak

brownisli-black, claws black.”


Russ says that this Conure is easy to tame and gifted as a talker;



