tirccdIiHj lU'fiidlfi— Boners House Aviaries, 1914. 45 
Masked liaM- iiiailc any atlempt to nest. The foniior si)eiid 
most ol' llicii- lime on I lie j^rouiul, where they arc fairly activt;; 
tlie lattiT spend all I heir time jx-rehing' and are very l(!tliargic. 
I hope the\' may do belter lu'.xt season. 
Ol the Fine,li-llyl)i'i(ls, 1 have ah'eaily (k3seribed the 
learui^- ol tiie tireeuliiieli X Himalayan Siskin in " W.K. (Vol. 
v., X.S.. p. 211)). 
The Si)iee X Bib Fiiu h cioss, of whieh two weie 
fully reaied. are very pretty li.'tle birds {ride plate, (inte p. 
11). 1 can i;'i\'e no 'data as to ineubation, etc., as the nest 
in whieh they were reared, a, ivo.x of loose hay, was shared 
with a Beiigalese and B.ll. iMaiiuikin, who also attem{)ted to 
bring t)IT some hybrids. About a dozen eggs were laid, and 
all four birds were oeeasionally seen trying to ineuljate them 
at tlu! same time; it certainly is a woniler that, with this over- 
crowding, any young wei'e reared at all. So far as I couid 
see they all had a part in feeding the young so long' as they 
remained in the nest, but altei' they Hew, the Spice Finch took 
practically sole charge. 
The Spice Finch X Ik'iigalese hybriil was in the nest 
quite foui weeks, and only Hew early this month (Deceniber), in 
fourteen degrees of frost; at the time of writing (Xmas Eve), 
it is still being fed by both parents. It is a very plainly 
coloured biixl and little resembles either parent. 
♦ 
Birds of the Jhelum District and an Ornitho- 
logical- Diary from the Punjab, 
By H. WuisTLEK, I. P., M.B.O.U. 
Conliiitiid from page 24. 
September 25. — Went out about 7 a.m. to shoot Btue Kock Pijeons 
(Cultiniba nitcrrntdia) at their moruing flight. There is a 
well on the cattle farm where the Hindus of Hissar City 
put down corn as a kind of charity offering for the hordes 
of Pigeons which live amd breed in the city. The conse- 
quence is that every morning there is a steady flight between 
the city and the well which attracts most of the outgoing 
Pigeons, and one has only to form a line some couple of 
hundred yards on the city side of the well to enjoy some 
extremely pretty shooting. Birds are coming over the whole 
time, singly and in flocks, giving every kind of shot, 
