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Wnih'y Brrcding n f hUich-checlu'd Lorchinls. 
Tlu'ii' pi-odurtiveness i8 little short of amazing. By way of 
ex|)('i'iiuciit 1 left one pair (the loj^-nest paii' of niy previous article) 
in their sununer aviary. On Monday. January ;U, two fully fledged 
young binls made their appearance in the flight, and I think there 
are others in the log — at any rate only one adult bird is ever to be 
seen. 
The second adult pair I caged and put in the out-dooi' bird 
room. — They have two young birds al)out four weeks old and are 
at nest again. 
I believe there is some considerable doul)t in the minds of 
Foreign Bird Fanciers as to whether Black Cheeks are, or are not 
hartly — I think my experience may be said to have solved the 
question satisfactorily. 
The frost of last week killed all the young Budgerigars 
(and they are hardy enough in all conscience), and yet the Black 
Cheeks kept under practically identical conditions (at any rate the 
log-nesters are) have been none the worse for the extreme cold. 
It may l)e of interest to note that with the commencement 
of the winter — i.e. about November — the Black Cheeks have fed 
almost exclusively on spray millet. They eat just a little white 
sunflower, but leave canary, white oats, and the smaller seeds 
untouched. 
As regards the other birds in the out-door bird room the 
cold has had no effect ixpon them, except for a White Java Hen 
which died egg-bound. The inmates of this room are, besides 
numerous Black Cheeked Love Birds and Java Sparrows, two 
Parrot Finches, and the following Parrakeets : Blue Bonnet, 
Stanleys, and Pennants. This out-door room was constructed from 
plans kindly supplied me by Mr. Willford, and has certainly 
well repaid the cost of its erection. 
All the smaller finches I have caged and brought into my 
study, but had 1 known in advance how well the out-door bird- 
room was going to serve me, I should have wintered the whole of 
my birds in it. 
From the experience of this year I should judge that so 
long as birds have perfectly dry and well ventilated quarters, the 
cold need not be feared. 
