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Whydahs. 
" above. The eggs are three in number. They have a 
highly polished surface of clear sea-green, marked with 
large spots and blotches of deep olive-brown." 
In B. N. 1916, Mr. Shore Baily describes the nesting of 
his aviary pair of Red-shouldered Whydahs, which were prob- 
ably of this species, though received by him as Bocage,'s, which 
however, has orange shoulders. He gives a photo of the nest 
and eggs, which unfortunately is as far as the birds got, and 
which is the nearest to a breeding success that has so far been 
reached by any one in this country. Mr. Teschemaker tells us 
in the A. M. for 1910, that it has been bred in Germany. 
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ZANZIBAR FAN-TAILED WHYDAH. 
U rohraclixa hildcbrainiti. H.L. v. 413. 
Synonomy. 
Urobrachya zanziharica. Shelley. 1881. & B. Afr. 64. 
U . hildcbroudti. Sharpe. 1890. Cat. 225. 
U . phocnicca hildcbrandti. (Reich. 1904). 
Referenxes. Sh. iv. 64. Plate. 30 fig. i. 
Range. E. Africa (Witu to Kondeland). 
(To he C oiitinucci) . 

Attempt to Rear Rheas with Turhey 
Foster-mothers. 
By R. Scott Miller, F.Z.S. 
In 1916 I had a true pair of Rheas (South American 
Ostrich) and when the hen started to lay, it occurred to me that 
I might save the eggs and try if I could hatch them and rear the 
chicks by means of Turkeys. 
One usually finds that the first few eggs of ducks and 
geese are infertile, so I kept the first four merely for their shells. 
Later on, when corresponding with a friend on the subject he 
told me he found the first four or so always infertile and hard- 
boiled them for use as nest eggs. The next eight my keeper 
placed under a turkey hen. kindly lent by a lady in the 
