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Linnet's and bright yellow riunp. The wings and tail arc like the Linnet. 
The other bird, which, I think, is a hen, is browner and fuller in every 
way, but about the same size. 
It is curious that the Singing -Pinch X Linnet should have fathered 
them . I saw him feed them frequently . 
(Miss) ETHEf. F. CHAWNEE. 
HYBRID BULBULS. 
Sir. — Just a few lines to tell you that the Bulbul Hybrids have 
moulted, and the largest is beginning to look quite a fine bird, and very 
red at the vent ; the others do not show it very much yet. Thoy still 
look more like the father ; the largest sings (?) quite well and has 
called a lot from the day it left the nest. I hope to be able to show 
one, but it is most dillioult to keep them in good feather in a cage, as 
they are wild birds and will flutter on the wires. 
I saw about 20 or more Long-tailed Tits go over here on October 
8},h. (Miss) ALFKEDA B. SMYTH. 
1/11/'14. 
AN EXTEAOEDINARY ACCIDENT. 
Sir, — I lost a fine Yellow Budgerigar cock in such an extra- 
ordinary manner; one would never think such a thing could happen. 
I have had six fine young Budgerigars caged up for many 
weeks to try and .sell them . The cage was usually hung against the wall 
^,,-r-^ by a wire (see quarter size diagram), but owing to 
X \ mice it was suspended from the roof and in cense - 
/ c. \ quence the wire hung loose at the back of the cage, 
/ " \, with the hooked ends inside . By some means, the 
( hook of wire got down the bird's throat in., not 
^^"^ measuring round the hook (see cross-line at right of 
of diagram) ; the distance across the gap between tip of hook and wire 
(see A on diagram), is f in. How the bird swallowed the hooked end 
is a marvel, when one considers the small throat of a Budgerigar . It 
was right down the throat, the tip of the hook causing the skin to 
project (the skin was not pierced) well below the base of the lower 
mandible. 
Ore, Hastings. (Miss) L. STUETON JOHNSON. 
ACCIDENTS TO WILD BIEDS. 
Sir, — I was down the field with the dogs when I saw a fine 
cock Chaffinch hanging by the wing at the top of the thorn fence ; he 
had not been dead long. A large thorn had run right through the wing, 
near th.i pinion joint, and two or three stiff twigs of the thorn bush 
were so interlaced just above the bird's head as to prevent him from 
flying upwards and releasing his wing. 
Ore, Hastings. (Miss) L. STUETON JOHNSON, 
