74 Foreign Birds. 
NrithtT do 1 projinse to pause hen', to deal with aviaries or 
hii'di'iidiiis, as it is (|uite uncaUed t'oi', the various (h'taihMl accounts 
oi" onr nieinliei's aviaries and l:)ir(U"oonis continually appearing', 
make tliis (jnite unnecessary ; therefore I propose to proceed with 
the .urouiis strai^dit away in the next instalment, commencing' 
with the Tanayridia?. 
[To he contimted.] 
The Breeding of Green Cardinals and other Notes. 
{Gitbrntdtri.v cristata.) 
By Dr. Maurice Amsler. 
Green Cardinals : The Editor has asked me to give a 
few notes on the breeding of my birds in the past season, and I 
therefore hope readers will excuse somewhat copious details of the 
breeding of Green Cardinals, for with the exception of a few 
commoner kinds such as Zelji'a Finches, most of the eggs laid 
]n"0Ted infertile. 
On 4th May I turned out, in an open Aviary, 15ft. long 
by 9ft. wide, one pair each of Green Cardinals, Virginian Cardinals 
and Red- whiskered Bulbuls. On May 10th, the Green Cardinal 
cock began the building of two nests, almost side by side, on the 
top of a brick wall : one of them was then lined l)y the hen with 
moss and cocoa-nut fibre. 
A neat cup-shaped nest was completed in four days, and no- 
thing more was done for a time ; tlie Virginian Cardinals and Bul- 
buls were however strictly kept from the vicinity of the nest. 
On May 29th, and the two succeeding days the hen laid her 
clutch of three eggs, beginning incubation at once The eggs were 
about the size of a Starling's, of a light blue colour, with irregular 
chocolate spots at the thicker end. 
I never saw the cock on the nest, but at the same time he 
was seldom far away and kejit constant guard, in fact my entry into 
the aviary was usually met with a reception which almost 
amounted to assault. 
As far as I could see, the hen left the eggs three or four 
times daily, for a stretch and feed, but was quickly tlriven back 
by her mate, who. iiowever, never attempted to feed her while on 
the iiest. 
On .Iniie lltliand Tilli two of tlic eggs hatched out (the 
third ultimately pi-oviiig to l)e clear), tlie period of incubation was 
