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stittled near the hole and appeared ,to beg-in feeding directly 
they got out on the tree, Wt, they were fed by the old birds 
at all stages of the departure, even the la^t being fed while 
still inside, and some of them directly they got out. There 
appeared to be no attempt of any kind on the part of the old 
birds to entice them out, nor any anxiety when they came out, 
except when they appeared in difficulties and likely to flutter 
to the ground one old bird always came to them. As near 
as possible there must have been ti quartei' of an hour 
between the exit of each. I certainly selected a lucky mo- 
ment to watch them I They continued calling and being 
attended by the old birds after they got up in the tree. 
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Where There's a Will There's a Way. 
By Thk Hon. Maky C. Hawke. 
It may prove of interest to some of my fellow avicul- 
turists to hear that 1 have reared a young Black and Yellow 
Hawfinch {Mycerohas nielano.rcmtJi as) . 
My birds came from the Cordoba Hills, Argentina, and 
were sent me l)y a friend last .June. Six were sent of which 
five lived, but alas! there was only one hen among them. 
During the winter they were kept in an unheated 
room and put out in the Spring. The true pair going into 
one division of the aviary, and one cock into the other, which 
contamed a mixed lot of foreign birds— the other two cocks 
I put in a large cage by themselves; they are all very tame. 
In June the pair btiilt a nest of hay in a square open 
box hanging in their enclosure. I put in the hay and the 
hen just carried bits about in her beak and shaped the jiest. 
She laid one egg very like a Blackbird's in colour, but would 
not incubate, so I gave it to la hen Bullfinch who was inculiat- 
ing infertile eggs in the same laviary. She hatched it out, but 
would not feed the chick; it was very thin and about two 
days old, and 1 decided to transfer it to a wild Hedge Spar- 
row's nest in which a clutch of eggs were being incubated. 
She fed it and I gradually removed her eggs. After six days 
I brought it indoors and hand -reared it— it is now^ (August 1st) 
a nice bird and doing well. 
The old hen nested again and laid a clutch of three 
