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food mixture with plenty of ants' e«K« seem to suit the youn« 
binls well l)ut of course tliey txet a lot of insects in the big fiiKht." 
We shall hope tor an article from his p(;n in a neai- issue. 
Hybrid Red-crkstbd x (4i!kbn Cardinal : Dr. Andrew 
Walker inl'orins nie that a young hybrid was reared in his aviaries 
last snnnner and is still living. A detailed record will be pub- 
lisl\('<l in oui- next issue from Dr. Walker's i)en. 
Hybrid Parrakeet — King x Crimson-wing : Our 
esteemed mend)er Mr. J. Frostick kindly sent me a young bird 
(too far gone for preservation, alas !) one of three hatched and fed 
well for three weeks, then stopped — the other two were fortun- 
ately discovered in time and are being hand reared. The young 
birtl was practically full grown and was a mass of down and pen 
feathers, the latter were just bursting, with the quills about half 
developed — the colouration of the head and neck I ascertained by 
opening the pen feathers ; upp*^'" surface dark grass-green ; lower 
back and rump yellowish-green with faint red tips to most of the 
featliei-s : wing feathers as back, but mostly tipped with yellow 
and blotched with red in centre of tip ; tail dark grass-green, with 
broad red tips ; under surface grass-green, with the feathers of 
tilt, al^ilomen broadly tipped with red, some red for three parts 
their length ; beak yellowish-horn colour ; legs and feet light 
bluish-grey. In this instance too I had to take my notes out of 
doors ! 
Hybrid Bulbuls : Just on going to press our esteemed 
member Mr. W. T. Rogers informs me that a pair of Red-cheeked 
X Syrian Bulbuls have hatched out three promising youngsters, 
and that up to the present they were being well fed. 
SWAINSON Lorikeets : Our esteemed member Miss 
Rosa C. Little has again met with success with this species — one 
young bird of this year is on the wing and independent of its 
parents, who are again busily en'.;:vr;(^ 1 in the duties of incubation. 
Zoo Nesting Notes : In addition to the Blue- winged 
Tanager already noticed, the following have reared young as 
under : — 
Number reared 
Variegated Sheldrakes {Tadorna variegata) 
Upland Goose (Chluephaga itiageUanica).... 
Common Sheldrakes {T. cornuta) 
Ruddy Sheldrakes ( T. casarca) 
nine 
two 
one 
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