190 The Aviaries and Birds at Soham House, Newmarket. 
The Pine Grosbeak was very nervous and eventually broke 
his neck. The other birds were all very friendly and there was no 
quarrelling. The Albino Blackbird is not very interesting as he 
is always hiding in the shrubs, probably owing to his weak eyes. 
I have this year, added to the above, a pair oi" Dominican 
Cardinals, 1 Black-throated Cardinal, a pair of Rosy Pastors, 
1 Brazilian Hangnest, '^ Blue Tanagers, 4 Marniikins, and a Pine 
Grosbeak, this one settled down at once anil is quite tame. 
In the heated aviary I started with pairs each of Superb, 
Tricolour, Crimson-crowned, and Magpie Tanagers, 1 Shama, 1 
Dyal bird, 2 Brazilian Hangnests, 2 Blue-cheeked Barbets, 1 
pair Blue Robins, 1 Hoopoe, 1 Orange-headed Ground Thrush, 1 
Blue Rock Thrush, 1 Red-legged Cuban Thrush, 1 Mocking bird, 
1 Sulphury Flycatcher, 1 Red-whiskered Bulbul, 1 pair Black and 
White Starlings, and odd males of Archbishop and Scarlet Tana- 
gers. All did well except the Blue Robins and the Hoopoe ; the 
Blue Robins met with accidental deaths, and the Hoopoe was 
never doing well, probably owing to the wet and cold summer, he 
suffered from rheumatism, and did not live through the winter. 
The Barbets both did very well until the winter, when I lost both 
rather suddenly from pneumonia. I also lost 1 Superb, 1 Tricol- 
our and the Archbishop Tanager from the same cause. The hot 
water was on during all the cold weather, and the minimum tem- 
perature was about 40 deg. F. in the inner part ; the birds were 
let out into the outer part every day. 1 am not at all sure that 
they would not do better if only shut into the inner part at night 
without any heat, 1 think they would be less liable to pneu- 
monia which was the cause of practically all my losses, and which 
I suppose was contracted by cold draughts combined with hot 
air.* 1 give the birds as much variety in the way of food as 
possible and feccl up well with mealworms during the cold 
months. All my l)irds have become very tame and take no notice 
of strangei'S. 
Besides these aviaries 1 have a Crane run about 50 yards by 
20 yards in which are now 1 pair Demoiselles, 1 Crowned Ci'ane, 
*I gather that in the flight of this aviary, hoth tlic long sides and front 
are open wire netting ; in such case 1 should advise covering in the most 
exi)osed long side, either with bass matting or roofing felt during the winter 
months, ronioving same each spring. Personally 1 have found the [)ercent- 
age of deaths very high in all aviaries, used as winter quarters, where the 
wind can blow through from side to side, or end to end, — Ei), 
