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Nesting Notes, Etc. 
proved infertile as lont;' as lie was raged indoors for the winter 
The old breeding pair have also five young"; one of the parents 
lost the use of its legs not long ago, but happily has 
recovered again. 
Two pairs of Barraband's only, went to nest; one had five 
eggs and hatched out three young ones, but two were 
accidentally crushed owing to the nest box being too small. We 
tried to hand-rear the third, but it did not take at all kindly to 
the process, and it was found necessary to return it to its parents 
who reared it in a larger nest. The other hen laid two eggs and 
hatched out and reared one chick. 
The Brown's turned out to be two hens, so naturally tliex 
did not add to the population of the aviaries ! I wonder why hen 
Brown's are so'niuch more numerous than cocks? 
The Pennants' nested and their eggs were fertile, but thp 
young were dead in the shell ; the hen was a new arrival and had 
been caged all the winter, which probably accounts for the 
results not being better. 
The Yellow-mantled and Rosella only hatched out one 
egg. The hen plucked the young bird rather badly in the nest, 
but it was reared and lived for some weeks, dying suddenly one 
morning from peritonitis, to the g'reat grief of its parents, and 
particularly of its father, who was very devoted to his only child 
It used to be very pretty to see him, when, on first leaving the 
nest, it scrambled uncomfrrtably about on the wire netting near 
the top of the flight, trying to show it the way to the perch, by 
calling to it to attract its attention and then jumping off the 
perch on to a branch just below to show it how easy it was to ge*- 
down. Contrary to the i<op'j.lar idea, birds are usually verv 
stupid about helping their }'oung when they get into awkward 
situations, and can neither extricate them nor show them how to 
extricate themselves. 
( )ne pair of Stanlev's did not nest at all ; two pairs reared 
five each, some of which were lost after getting on the wing; 
the fourth pair reared a single young one- One of the hens is 
sitting on a second nest of f<jur eggs. 
