Editorial. 
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lEOitorial. 
Nesting of Grey-winged Ouzels: After coming very 
near to success, I have after all to write failure after the attempt 
of this species to reproduce their kind in mj' aviary. Though in 
my avicultural experience I have had many severe disappoint- 
ments (these are the lot of all who attempt the breeding of un- 
common species, or the insectivora), the present instance is about 
the keenest I have experienced for many years, as success seemed 
almost assured with at least one of the young birds, which 
appeared to be very strong and robust, and up to ten days' old 
was very vigorous and the parent birds most assiduous in feeding 
their offspring. On the eleventh day the parent birds were not so 
attentive, but they still fed it, but I do not think they fed at 
all on the twelfth day, on the evening of which it died. My 
business claims did not permit me to undertake hand feeding or 
the bird could easily have been reared, if it had been taken in 
hand on the eleventli day. The hen lias began to incubate again 
and I shall hope for this occasion to be able to get a more varied 
supply of live insect food. 
Nesting of Pope x Grey Cardinals: Disappoint- 
ments never come singly, as the aviculturist of any lengthy 
experience knows only too well. The birds nested, laid four eggs, 
the ground colour of which was greyish-green, thickly marbled 
with reddish-brown, all were fertile as far as I have since 
ascertained, when just as the eggs were due to hatch the hen died ; 
she was evidently about to lay a second clutch by the side of the 
first and, before her condition was discovered, she died egg-bound 
(truly an aviculturist must indeed be a philosopher, or some 
would be giving up the hobby in disgust). The first intimation 
I got of her condition being the finding of the body, which con- 
tained an abnormally large and full shelled egg, which the un- 
fortunate bird had been unable to pass. This is the first case of 
egg binding in my aviaries for six or seven years. A photo- 
graphic reproduction of the nest and eggs accompanies these 
notes, and, as the box was one of the few I use with fixed tops, 
this had to be removed to expose the nest and eggs. 
