The Nesting of Grey-winged Oiizels. 185 
ordinary soft-food mixture, secure their sliare of any mealworms 
thrown in, and I have seen them swallow earthworms fully four 
inches long. Previously to being able to fend for themselves 
they would come on the hand, but since are almost as wild as if 
they had been reared in a state of nature, but now are becoming 
more confiding, though somewhat easily scared. 
After the young left the nest, the duty of feeding and 
protecting them, devolved almost entirely upon the male, who 
was most assiduous in the care of his progeny. It was interest- 
ing to observe him with his beak full of mealworms, putting 
eight or nine at a time into the gape of a youngster. 
The plates show the young birds: (i) On the day they 
left the nest (seventeen days old) ; (2) four days later (twenty- 
one days old), and the last series were taken on August 28 when 
the birds were forty-five days old. In the photos are also shown 
similar nest boxes to that in which the young were reared. 
The Fledgelings : In the callow sta<;e their skin was 
greyish flesh colour, well covered with ochre-yellow hairs, some 
of which may be seen in one of the photos projecting through 
the plumage of the young l)ird. Their eyes opened on the sixth 
day and on the seventh day the pen feathers were observed on 
wings, back and tail ; on the tenth day the pen feathers were 
bursting practically all over the bird, while on the fourteenth 
day they were fully fledged, though tail and flight feathers were 
but short. Their plumage is of the typical spotted or striated 
character of the thrush-tribe and very distinct from either 
parent ; moreover the sexes are quite distinct and readily to be 
discerned on the day they leave the nest. 
Young (5' : Blackish chocolate brown, the upper surface 
and crown of the head practically unspotted, but the feathers of 
the mantle and upper back have lighter margins, producing faint 
undulations over these areas ; at the base of lower mandible are 
three longitudinal streaks of palish golden-brown, the centre one 
being very short in comparison to the two outer ones ; the 
feathers of the sides of lower face, side of neck and remain- 
der of under surface have tawny-brown shaft streaks and brown- 
ish margins, imparting quite a spotty appearance to the under 
surface ; the median and greater coverts, tertiaries, and outer 
