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My Aviorics and Birds. 
and, excepting tlie i'arrakeets, all the birds arc- outside all 
the year round. In the winter the Parrakects occupy a heated 
.aviary indoors. 
As I write this my pair of Canary .x Goldfinch hybrids 
have a nest in a bo.x bush, which contains several eggs, but I 
do not know if they will be fertile. 
Last year my Java Sparrows reared two young ones which 
unfortunately died during the winter. A White and a (irey 
Jav;i Sparrow, however, mated, nested, and successfully reared 
two young crosses. i'he Red-billed Weavers built a nest and 
deposited therein one egg, but soon deserted. 
My Turtle Doves breed all the vear round, and I have 
had to reduce their immbers by giving a lot to friends. 
The Budgerigars would not use the husks, but dropped 
their eggs from the trees in the aviary and, of course, they 
were all broken. 
My Golden Pheasants laid six eggs, which were put 
under a hen, and five young Pheasants were reared; these 
now occupy aviary No. lo. 
The Rufous-necked Weavers constructed two nests but 
did not lay. 
I hope these rough notes will not be smiled at by senior 
aviculturists, but as my birds have given me so much plea- 
sure I thought a few notes about them might interest some 
readers of "Bird Notes." 
The Season's Results. 
By Herbert Bright. 
The nesting results during this season have provided 
many disappointments, much interest, and there has been a 
sufficient element of success to save me having to write failure. 
The various episodes, even those not carried to a successful 
conclusion, having been full of interest in illuminating, to me, 
many phases of bird-life. As the most pleasing, I will give 
a list of the young fully reared first. 
12 Long-tailed Grassfinches (Pocphila acuticauda), ten of these are now 
in adult plumage; there were four broods of three each. 
3 Ruficauda Finches {Hathilda ruficauda). 
2 Masked Grassfinches ij'oephila personata). 
