300 Breeding Results at Park Lodge Aviaries, 
she has taken complete control of his varied assortment of 
birds. With the advent of the cock, nesting operations ceased. 
One so often finds that wheic a married couple are so very 
all-in-all to each other they forget their parental 
duties. Personally I am getting tired of their honeymoon 
antics and hope they w^ill settle down to the serious duties of 
family rearing next summer. They are well behaved towards 
the other irmiates of the aviary, although so much display of 
afTectioi in public rather irritates and tries llie more lofty- 
minded of their avian neighbours. 
Leaving the Red-crests saying sweet nothing.-, ai a 
fir-tree we will hark back to the Virginian Cardinals, which 
we rather suddenly and rudely left on the front door-step 
of this article. 
When the hen Virginian Cardinal came mU) my pos- 
session, ai considerable cost to the exchequer, 1 was cheered 
by various aviculturists casting aspersions on her sex. From 
which it is fairly obvious that they had never bred this species, 
as they are cjuite easy to sex within two months of leaving 
the nest. L ut with the advent of the spring of 1915 she still 
retained hei brown dress and black trimm n^,s, o I decided to 
turn them into my largest aviary, measuring 50 feet x 30 
feet (approximately). They went to nest at once, building two 
or three nests and laying two clutches of eggs before settling 
down to serious business. The nest was built of exactly the 
same material and exactly the same way each time. Exter'ially 
It cons.s.ed of leaves of a large Bamboo {Bainbusa mciake), 
and lined with coarse grass. The photograph shows this 
very clearly — the nest was built in a Retinospora. It is deeply 
cup-shaped and fairly strong, but decidedly small for 
so large a bird. The eggs numbered three to a 
clutch each time, and were very like those of the Red-crests 
but not quite so narrow and more distinctly blotched, as seen 
in the photograph. The birds were extremely secretive in 
building and evaded my watchful eye on more than one occa- 
sion until the nest was completed and the eggs laid. The hen 
appears to do practically all the building. The cock is 
apparently too busy singing a very beautiful and melodious 
tune, although very restricted as regards variety. Duriiag the 
