Late News. 
the time of my retiring for the night, and left them wrapped \X{\ 
in Ilannel, but in the early morning they were dead. The one 
entrusted to the Javas was successfully reared and Hew this morn- 
ing (Nov. 1st). The Gouldians are again incubating another clutch 
of eggs, in a cage' 24 inches x 15 inches x '9 inches, iiung in 
the kitchen. W. EDMUNDS. 
Late News. 
Blue Budgerigars : This charuiiniL! colour variety (see 
L.C.B.A. report) received the honour of being exhihited before the 
scientific meeting of the Zoohigical Society on 21>th ult. by Mr. D. 
Seth-Smith, the Society's Curator of Birds, one of the specimens 
exhibited of the Horticultural Hall ])eing kindly lent by our es- 
teemed member, Monsieur Pauvvels, for the pm'pose. Mr. Seth- 
Smith exhibited the two varieties (Blue and Yellow) and also the 
species (Green) in the same cage. So far the following varieties 
have been reported at various times during the past thirty years, 
viz. : Albino, Blue, Yellow, and Yellow with black upper parts. 
Fuller details will be given in our next issue. 
L.C.B.A. Show : Just on going to press we learn that a 
protest was lodged against the 1st prize winners (Red-headed 
Finches) in class No. 163 as being in their wrong class and there- 
fore ineligible to compete. The L.C.B.A. Committee have upheld 
the protest and disqualified this entry. The Red-headed Finches 
should have been entered in class No. 164. Class No. 163 is only 
for the birds named in the schedule. 
House Martins : The report from Mr. E. E. Austen of 
the British Museum re Dr. Gosse's interesting note on page 369 of 
this issue is just to hand. " The specimen sent is the parasitic fiy 
" (Stenopteryx hirundis. Linn.), a species found only on the 
" House-martin. I believe that most if not all House-mai-tins 
" harbour one or more of these flies, which would seem to be 
" specially common on the young birds and in the nests. An 
"allied species {Oxysterum pallidum, Leach) is found on the 
" Swift. These flies belong to the group of Diptera known as the 
'* Pupipara, the females of which do not lay eggs like ordinary 
" flies, but produce at a birth a single larva, which is retained 
" within the oviduct of the mother and nourished by the secretion 
