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purchased during the summer, as these being newly-imported, do

not give a fair test.



List of Birds, April, 1914.



1 pair Bulbuls (Bed-vented).


1 pair Virginian Cardinals.


1 pair Nonpareil Buntings (cock

an old bird, died 4th October,

1914).


1 pair Bed-billed Weavers.


1 pair White Javas (cock badly

injured by cat, had to be des¬

troyed) .


1 pair Saffron Finches.


2 pairs Cuban Finches.


1 pair and 1 odd cock Parrot

Finches.


1 pair Orange-cheeked Waxbills

(1 died or rather disappeared

7th December).



2 pairs Canaries.


2 cock Cordon Bleus (sold 1 on

the 8th & 1 on the 15th Sept.)


1 Grey Waxbill.


1 cock Madagascar Weaver.


1 cock Chaffinch.


1 cock Greenfinch


1 pair Bedpolls


1 pair Bullfinches (caught locally

during summer).


1 pair Bed-faced Love Birds.


1 pair Californian Quail.


1 pair Common Quail.


1 pair Landrails.


1 Snipe (died of injuries sus¬

tained in flying against wire¬

netting).



When I can say that I left Brockenhurst on the last day of

February, 1915, with every bird mentioned above except those

bracketed as having been either sold or as having succumbed, I

think this fact will form the best argument to Dr. Lovell-Keays’

contentions.



During all this time, except once for a period of three days,

the birds were fed and looked after solely by myself, and this fact

may have something to do with my success in keeping them prac¬

tically without a loss throughout the winter, which by the way was

an extremely wet one.


On my arrival here I had many vexatious and costly losses

whilst my aviary was being put up, owing to the fact I had nowhere

to house the birds except a terribly draughty and not even rainproof

conservatory. Then, as Dr. Lovell-Keays would say, it was a case

of picking up two or three dead birds every morning, and, amongst

others, I unhappily lost the following :—



