Breeding Results at Park Lodge Aviaries, 301 
breeding season ho is distinctly pugnac ious, but only bothers 
about birds similarly coloured. To his disturbed vision a 
cock K(.'tl-l)ilk-d Weaver scenud to ol't'cr itself as a fair object 
of resenlnient and anger. But the weaver was c[uite able 
to look after himself, and the net result was, that the Weaver 
developed into a Marathon winner and rather enjcjyed the 
chase just as it is said the fox does. Hut the \Vea\er lived 
to become cjuite a nuisance when live-food was distributed for 
the birds with young, and, after a while the Cardinal gave up 
the chase, when the babies began to cry. He proved a model 
husband and father. He sang to his wife the live-long day 
and on fine nights — not by bawling into her ear at close 
quarters, but at a respectful distance, whence she could hear or 
ignore him at will, but never forget him. She left the nest 
two or three times a day to feed, and he was most attentive, 
giving her any dainties he could find, but nothing seemed to 
give her greater pleasure than the petals or the commoo 
Yellow Iris, or Flag, of which there are a good many in 
this aviary. The incubation period was apparently li-is 
