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in his out-door aviary at Grimsby, who hail a brood of two 
reared till they were fully fledged, and within a day or two of 
leaving the nest, when the parent birds for some reason stopped 
feeding and went to nest again. Mr. Sutcliffe sent me one of the 
young birds, which unfortunately was quite high when it reached 
me and I could not have it preserved, but by taking it out of 
doors I was able to get the following description : Well devel- 
oped and feathered, upper surface blue, duller and greener than 
that of the adult bird, the dark areas of the wing browner than in 
the adult : down mouse-brown ; under surface pale whitish-blue 
entirely lacking the lustre of the adult. Our member's 
disappointment must have been very keen, to fail after coming so 
near success. We certainly hope that complete success will be 
attained at the second attempt, and that Mr. Sutcliffe will send a 
detailed account for publication in " B.X." of this interesting 
occurrence. 
Our esteemed member the Hon. Mrs. McLaren Morrison 
informs me that her Archbishop Tanager, kept in a cage indoors, 
has laid an egg, but has made no attempt at incubation ; she 
rightly considers this a rather uncommon occurrence. Mrs. Mor- 
rison has also recently acquired a specimen of the very rare 
Short-tailed Parrot (P. hrddnjuru.^). 
Our esteemed member Captain .1. S. Keeve has reared a 
hybrid Cape Canary x Canary, 17 eggs in all were laid, only one 
of which was fei-tile. He also has a l)rood of St. Helena Wax- 
bills all but ready to leave the nest : they are being reared on 
ants' cocoons and a few gentles. 
At the Zoo, a pair of Blue-winged Tanagers (Calliste 
cyanoptera) have built a nest in a box tree, in one of the Bird of 
Paradise flights and are steadily incubating three eggs, but the 
result, which we hope will be successful, was not known at time 
of penning these notes. 
Finches and Cardinals : Our esteemed member Dr. 
Easton Scott is meeting with a fair measure of success in his new 
and roomy natural out-door aviary. So far the following species 
have young either on the wing or about to leave the nest : Green 
Cardinals (1), again incubating a clutch of four eggs : Cuban 
Finches (3) ; Long-tailed Grassfinches (3) ; Masked Grassfinches 
(3) ; Silverbill x Olive Finch Hybrids (4) — this latter success will 
entitle Dr. E. Scott to the Club medal. He remarks : " The soft 
