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Aviary Notes for ipi/. 
inspecting the box again some time later 1 was surprised to i'md 
ten eggs. The young hatched out on or about June 15th; one 
egg was addled and nine young were fully reared. These left 
the nest from July 15th onward. 
In the meantime I had provided another nesting box, and 
on July 20th the hen was again sitting, this time on five eggs. 
The male parent took charge of all the young and aiso had to 
feed the sitting hen, so he had a pretty strenuous time for the 
first few days until the young began to be independent : of the 
second nest four eggs hatched out and two of the young were 
taken to hand-rear when about fully fledged — the remaining two 
were duly brought up by their parents. 
This small aviary was, for a time, very suggestive of a 
dealer's stock cage containing as it did thirteen full-grown Ros- 
ellas. I soon parted with the young but have retained the breed 
ing pair. 1 would advise all who breed birds and parrots in 
particular to mark their adult birds with rings when first they 
arrive, or they may one fine day send off a valuable breeder by 
mistake. I make a practice of placing a copper ring on all cock 
birds and a galvanised iron one on the hens. If one has two 
pairs of one species it is easy to ring one pair on the left leg and 
the other on the right. As it was, I nearly sent off my breeding 
hen, thinking she was a youngster and only discovered my mis- 
take in the nick of time. 
My last note is on a pair of Yucatan Blue and Black Pies 
(Cissolopha yucataniea) kindly lent me for the season by Mr. 
Guy Faulkner. A fuller account of their breeding episodes will 
appear in the AviciiltHral Magazine. 
These birds came to me in March and were turned out in 
mid- April. They laid four eggs in a bare wooden box in earh 
June, and I had to provide them with a Thrush's nest. The hen 
did not mind my interference and sat out her full period of six- 
teen days, when two chicks hatched out ; these were reared to 
the age of seventeen days without the slightest trouble, when, 
owing to the collapse of the nest, one chick got out of the nest 
and died of cold, the other was subsequently neglected by both 
parents, who had been most devoted up to then, and I had to 
take it to hand-rear as the only chance of saving its life. It was 
