Hesting Notes, Etc. 
history, while with me, meditated upon — but tlie Hmit of space 
has been reached (passed) and I must leave to my readers' 
imagination the pleasing interest they created. 
Such brief spells of quiet restfulness are like oases in the 
midst of these troubled times — one forgets the burden of care, 
suffering, worry and strife, even though the dull, far distant 
boom of the Flanders' guns was continuously in mine ear the 
whole time, and one rose rested and refreshed. 
Though the latter account lacked the intense interest of 
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the family parties of pre-war times, and was largely of a collec- 
tion of bachelor birds, yet the pleasure and interest was there 
and again and again plans and resolves to mature when peace 
once more reigns, made for the writer a short period — one of 
many similar ones — of unalloyed pleasure and interest, little, 
if any, inferior to similar ones of happier days; though, of 
course, avicultural data was little, if at all, increased. 

Nesting Notes, Etc. 
By The Marquis of Tavistock. 
I wonder whether any aviculturist with a big collectior 
of foreign birds has ever seen his dreams for an approaching 
breeding season come true? " Hope springs eternal in the 
human breast," and as each season comes round I conjure up 
rosy visions of large broods successfully reared by every 
potential breeding pair. How sadly do the modest results fall 
short of what I had hoped for! vStill, one lives and learns and 
profits by the lessons of past failures, and each season sees me 
just a trifle nearer to the breeding season of success without 
disappointment. | 
This year I hoped to have broods as under: 
Bourke's Parrakeets (N eophcnia boiirkei} — i. 
Btue-winged Grass Parrakeets (N. venusta) — 2 or 3. 
Many-colour Parrakeets (Psephotus multicolor) — i. 
Barrabaiid's Parrakeets (Polytelis barrabandi) — 4. 
Yellow-bellied Parrakeets (Platyccfcus flavtventr'is) — i. 
