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I did not have much breeding luck with them, owing-, 
I fear, to the aviaries Always being too crowded. I can only 
call to mind: Upland Geese, Carolina Duclcs, Californian Quail, 
and a few fancy Pheasants as having successfully bred. 
A few notes re the breeding of the Upland Geese may 
be of interest interpolated here. I can call to mind the first 
breeding episode of this species quite well. My first pair 
came from the Clifton Zoo and were quite young when they 
reached me; by the following summer the Goose developed into 
a fine bird, but the Gander was not so good. I then procured 
another pair from Mr. Jamrach in which the conditions were 
reversed, the Gander being very fine and the Goose poor. 
By dividing them up I was in possession of one pair of very 
fine birds, and another pair not anything like as good; the latter 
I turned into the aviary, but the former had a small sunny 
enclosure at the bottom of the garden to themselves. 
On the following Good Friday the first eg'g was laid 
and three others followed, with the lapse of a day between the 
laying of each egg. Incubation commenced with the laying 
of the fourth egg, and on Whit -Sunday two goslings had their 
first look round (the other two eg'gs were infertile). I kept 
