29S Brrrdino- Results af Park Lndor Aviaries, 
Breeding Results at Park Lodge Aviaries. 
Bv ])R. I.. Lo\ i I T Kkavs, I'.Z.S. 
(Continued from pa^c 1S3). 
C AI•!I)l^ A 1 s : Inn pvv'ovi^ ro:vmuni a i )n I made the re- 
mark that my brccd'ng results wrre nothing to writ? hom"" about. 
If that be so, they are still less to write away about, and in a- 
niagazine such as "Bird Notes" I feel T must apologise — 
{quite unnecessary. Ed.) — for intruding every time I write. 
If the membershi]) falls ofT, I shall feel partly to blame. 
It is pro]iosed to deal with Cardinals in this literary 
effort, and noting a few interesting points as observed in a 
natural wilderness aviary. 
My Virginian Cardinals (Cardiiialis cardinalis^ '^amc 
into my possession in J 91.3, and spent their first summer in 
what, after seeing Mr. Willford's immense and palatial iviarics, 
I slxjuld describe as a good sized rage, measuring twenty 
feet square, with a large brick-built shelter-shed attached. It 
was in this aviary that Red-cre.sted Cardinals (Paroaria rticul- 
lata) were reared in 191 4. and about which a few random 
remark:;, were written in a previous issue of "B.N.' {vide 
pp. 148-50). 
About these Red-crested Cardinals I have a somewhat 
amusing and humiliating {whv hatniliating;'^ Ed.) announce- 
ment to make. The two gloriously tuneful cocks which sang 
with such ecstacies of delight turned out to be two hens. 
I inferred they were two cocks because of their incessant and 
beautiful song. The two supposed cocks were put into my 
large Waders' aviary, and, although friendly, were not over 
interested in each other. Had there been a bird of the sterner 
sex present I fear they would not have been friendly. As it 
was, it was simply a case of Bulgarian "armed neutrality." 
In the same aviary was a widowed Yellow Sparrow {Passer 
luteus). who was untiring and unceasing in building a nest 
over the main pathway and in a somewhat precarious, position. 
This .Sparrow-fellow was a bit of a pefformer, and to see 
him transporting huge pieces of stick four or five times his 
own length and, one would judge, far heavier than himself 
filled me with wonder. I used to call it " playing the Blon- 
din/' for it 'reminded me very much of that famous tight-rope 
