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Bocage's Whydah, Diamond Doves (incubating), Canaries, and hybrid 
■Californiar. X Squaniata Quail. 
No. 7. Paradise Whydahs, Abyssinian Weavers, and Bronze- 
wing Doves (incubating). 
No. 8. Indian Larks, Short-winged Weavers, and Bearded Tits. 
No. 9. Variegated Laughing-Thrushes, Black-headed and 
Rul'ous-ni'cked Weavers, and Mexican B!ark-breasted Quail. 
No. lU. Rufous-necked Weavers, Orange-headed Weaver (the 
male parent of the hybrid Weavers in enclosure 6\ Mexican Black- 
hreasted Quail, Fieldfares, and various Hyphantornine Weavers. 
It will be noted that the lists in some of the aviaries 
are small, but the numerous birds yet in the bird -room were 
to b^ distributed over these a little later. 
I have already intimated that the arrangement.s de- 
scribed above have l)orne good results as manifested by the 
various records, successes, and partial successes, from Mr. 
Shore Baily's pen during the season, and I will now inter- 
polate a brief description, illustrated by photo-reproductions 
of Weavers' nests, taken in the aviaries, but description is not 
needed, the photos speak for themrselves, combined with the 
records which have appeared in the present and last volumes- 
it should be noted that these nests, and others, which havet 
been illustrated in our pages, are not the merely ornamental 
playthings, with which too many Weavers in captivity occupy 
their time, but nests in which serious attempts to reproduce 
their kind have been made, and in several instances with com- 
plete success; more need not l)e written. 
Now a few words as to the bird-room; this is a ground- 
floor room, attached to the house and in close proximity to the 
kitchen quarters, from which it is separated by a narrow hall. 
In this hall stands a gas boiler, which by the means of radiators 
keeps up a comfortable temperature in the bird-room (a large 
one). All round the room are spacious enclosures in two 
stories, lower and upper, and in these the bulk of the Passerine 
series pass the winter months. I will not indicate the separate 
enclosures of which there were at least eight or nine, but* 
merely give a bulk list of the birds I inoted in "them. 
Finches: Diuca, Black Seed-, Zebra, B.H. and R.H. Goiddian, 
Cuban, Lavender, Bicheno's, Diamond, Fire, Long-tailed Grass-, lluti- 
cauda ; also Himalayan, and Chinese Greenfinches, St. Helena Seed- 
eaters, etc . 
