152 Correspondence. 
Correspondence. 
Cross-Mating of Blue- Mountain Lorikeet and Violet-necked Lory 
(continued). Sir. — In continuation of my notes in April " Bird Notcit" I 
may say that a fine young bird was hatched from the one egg laid in the nest, 
but, as the parents failed to feed it, it of course died. At the time the first 
egg was droxtped upon the ground I did not know Lories only laid two, or I 
should have mended the tiny crack with gummed tissue paper and replaced 
it in the nest. As it is I am afraid there is nothing of interest to record, 
except the fact that the Lory sat exactly a month to my certain knowledge, 
and the probability is two days over the month. Thus — on the 22nd INIarch 
an egg was laid on the ground, on the 25th I took an opportunity to examine 
the nest and found one egg, which was hatched on April 22nd, four weeks to 
a day from my discovery of the egg, and the probability is it was laid the 
day after the first one, and, as the hen sat closely the whole of the time, this 
would make the incubation two days over the month, an unusually long time 
for so small a bird, I think you will allow. The cock spent all tlie nights in 
the nest also, and fed the hen assiduously during the day ; it was provoking 
he failed to feed the young one. They evidently intend to go to nest again, 
but I have not much hope of any better results next time. 
(Mrs.) E. a. H. HARTLEY. 
Similar Names. Mr. E. W. Harper, of 6, Ashbumham Road, Bed- 
ford (late of Lidia and British Guiana), writes to say that he does not supply 
cocoa-nut husks ; nor is he at all connected with anyone else of the same 
name at Wolverhampton. This announcement is made in view of Mr. 
Browning s recommendation on page 10.'5 of last month's Bin/ Notes. 
Black-Cheek Love Birds— A further Note of Warning ! Sir, in your 
last issue you published a word of warning from me about this species. Will 
you permit me in the interests of our Readers to say, unless my two pairs of 
Black-cheeks are of a particularly blood-thirsty disposition that, in addition 
to maiming the Budgerigars as previously recorded, they literally smashed 
in the head of a Long-tailed Grass Finch cock (one of the miscellaneous lot 
of finches I mentioned as having turned into their aviary). The hen of 
this pair died two days later, so she doubtless had been assaulted by the 
Black-cheeks. I can only presume that these Long-tails had intruded on 
the domestic arrangements of the Black cheeks and had paid the usua 
penalty for their temerity. All /(((/;.s of finches have now been removed 
from this aviary ; but two odd hens I could find to other home for, are 
flying about with the Black-cheeks, and are apparently on the best of terms 
with them. To the " moral " arrived at in my last letter, it is obviously 
necessary to add that when Black- cheeks are once established in an aviary 
it is only courting disaster to put jHiii-.s of birds in with them. 
It may perhaps be of interest also to members that from the"log- 
nesters " the result of their first nest has be^n six eggs laid, one fully 
fledged youngster, two dead in the nest (partly fledged), and three infertile 
eggs. So the season of 19 lO has opened inanspiciously for me! It would 
be interesting if others of our members who keep lack-cheeks would give 
the result of their breeding operations, and especially whether any 1909 
