154 ^i>i Ea/ster Tour Auioikj Monhcra' A claries. 
tiiiR! permitted, and then passed on to Mrs. Pope's at Tiverton, 
with whom we lunched; thence to Earonnc Le Clement dc 
Tauitegnies at Minehead, putting up for the night with Mr. 
Westacott, of the Wellington Hotel, at the same j)la(:e. On 
Friday we left for Taunton where we lunched with Mr. Spraidc- 
ling, and then passed on to Westbury to Mr. Shore -Baily's, 
with whom we stayed till after lunch on the following day, 
bringing an interesting and pleasant tour to an end by the 
final run via. Devizes to Oxford. 
Of the lovely panorama of pastoral England and its 
southern coast line, or the wild life glimpsed as wc passed 
through, it must suffice to say that of nature's beauties in all 
their aspects, visionally and mentally, we drank our (ill. Of 
the wild birds met with, 1 will refer to later in part; Ave 
saw sufficient to indicate tliat many species were busy re- 
producing their kind, we heard more than we saw, but we 
glimpsed such S2>ecies as Tree Creepers, Nuthatches, a Jay, 
and many Gallinaceous birds -continuously the prospect was 
pleashig, the disporting of the wild creatures of the air en- 
trancing, filling space with their activity and the air with 
melody -in fact, in the beautiful weather prevailing all na- 
ture seemed to " rejoice and bo glad " (the time of the flowers 
and the singing of birds was come) and we participated. 
But, I must not linger, this is an Avicultural Journal, and I 
must keep this fact strictly in view, and pass on to des- 
cribe the aviaries visited and brieffy review their occupants. 
Mk. Bainbkidues Aviaries: As these have been re- 
cently figured and described {vide "B.N." November, 1913) 
it will not be necessary to repeat details. Many of the birds 
have had full range of the respective flights all the winter 
and very fit and robust they looked too, including a small flock 
of Gouldian Finches not yet in full colour. Others, princi- 
pally the later acquisitions were given cage accommodation 
either in the shelters of the respective aviaries, or in a tem- 
perate greenhouse. 
In the new aviary we noted the following species among 
others :— 
Indian White -eyes. *Gouldian Finches. 
YeUow-wingcd Sugarbirds. Ecd -headed Finches. 
Californian Quail. *Bich('no's Finches. 
*Cordon Bleus. St. Helena Waxbills. 
Long-tailed Tits. *GoId-breasted Waxbills. 
