All Rights Reserved. 
May, 1918. 
BIRD NOT£S: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 
Some Birds and their Nests in the Boyers 
House Aviaries. 
By W. Shore Baily. 
Now that the nesting season is again with us, these few 
notes of some of tlie happenings in my aviaries last season may 
perliaps be of interest; but I should certainly not have ventured 
to send them had I not known that so many of our members 
who were accustomed to write for Bird Notes were away at the 
war, as I feel that I have done my share the last year or two 
towards contributing to the reading matter in our Journal, and 
I am afraid that our readers may be getting " fed up " with 
my scribblings. 
In spite of the fact that the number of the inmates of my 
aviaries was very much reduced at the beginning of last year, 
I still liad a fairly successful season, inasmuch as I succeeded in 
breeding three different species for the first time in England, 
viz : — the Green Fruit Pigeon, the White-cheeked Finch Lark 
and the Mexican Black-breasted Quail, accounts, of which events 
have been published. In the case of the Fruit Pigeons, the 
young one that was reared turned out to be a cock, and he has 
since gone with liis mother to America. The young Finch Lark 
was killed by another bird, so I am unable to give any particulars 
as to its change into adult plumage, but I hope that this year thr 
old birds may again go to nest, and that the young ones ma / 
meet with no mishap. The young Mexican Quail are flourishing 
and will, I hope, rear a family this season. 
The passerine birds were a complete failure, and not a 
single young one survived at the end of September. The Zebra 
Finches, usually so proHfic, and of which species I turned out 
