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Some Birds and their Nests. 
five pairs into five different aviaries, at tlie end of AiigiiM 
hadn't raised a single young- one between them. Two broods 
left the nest in September, but none of these survived. 
My Sulphury Seed-eaters, which won me a medal in 1914 
(B.N., N.S., Vol. V.) nested three times, but each time without 
success. The first time a female Silky Cowbird interfered with 
them. It was amusing to watch this large bird trying to squeeze 
herself into their small nest. Her efforts destroyed the Seed- 
eaters" eggs, but I would not have minded this had she deposited 
some of her own, so as to have given the Finches a chance of 
incubating, and this she did not do. I think that the Cowbird 
died eggbound some short time later than this, and I did not 
mourn her loss. 
Another failure was with my Black Seed-finch, first bred 
by me in 1915 (B.N., Vol. VI., N.S.). Here the failure was due 
to my own carelessness in failing to mark the young birds of tb.." 
preceding year. A friend wanted a pair, and when sending 
them, I must have included my old male. In cases where the 
sexes are alike, one cannot be too careful not to break up one's 
breeding pairs. I got a supposed cock from another of our 
members, but this also turned out to be a hen; the consequeiire 
WHS that I had nmnerous nests of infertile eggs. 
Yet another failure was with my Sikhim Siskins. I turned 
out three pairs in different enclosures. In two of these the cocks 
were killed by other l)irds early in the year, and in the other, two 
young ones were hatched late in the season, which did not live 
to leave the nest. 
(To he concluded ). 

Records of Birds which have Bred in Captivity. 
By Dr. E. Hopkinson. D.S.O., M.A., M.B. 
{Continued from page p^j. 
For nu-aniiii;- of nbltrfviations Tide paf^es 5S — q. 
36.— MEALY REDPOLL. L. Unaria. W.T.P. 
1st Teschemaker, 191 1. F.B.C. Medal. R.N. 191 1. 238. 
Hybrids. 
MEALY REDPOLL x CANARY. W.T.P. Vale. 
X BULLFINCH. Vale. 
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