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entered the enclosure, providing I entered and moved about 
quietly; the male also would sometimes tolerate my presence, 
but generally be disai)peared into the growing bushes of the 
outer jiortion. 
May 2()th : Tlie long wing-sheaths ba\ e burst and also 
the stubs on the back of the bird; small stubs now show on the 
head and neck. The colour of the feathers is a mixture of 
black and brown. Dn the 31st the bird had quite a well-covered 
appearance, the wing and Ijack-feathers being blackish with 
brown lacings; breast brown, barred with black; head and neck 
simply showing short stubs; it is now 9 days old. 
June 1st : .Some of the blackish feathers on the young- 
ster's back appear shot with green. 
June 3rd: Head and neck stubs bursting, but not yet 
looking well-covereil. ( )n this day, towards evening, 1 found 
that this young bird had flown out of the nest and was perching 
on some branches arranged on the opposite wall, about six feet 
away, with its mother; it seemed very wonderful that the young 
bird could be so far advanced as to be able to fly at twelve days 
old, yet this has happened in many later successes. 
It appeared a quaint figure with its oval-looking body-shape 
(the tail being short and the wings long at this stage), its barish- 
looking head and neck, and rather long dark beak and legs. 
The eyes are very dark brown, with black pupils. The greyish- 
wliite barring showed well on rump or lower portion of back. 
In the early morning of the fo'lowing day I found it in 
the nest, but later saw it perching on the branches again: I 
afterwards observed that the young'ster and mother-bird 
returned to their nest at night and did so for some time after this 
young bird's first flight — in fact, until 1 was obliged to remove 
it, but that is another episode. I saw the youngster feeding 
by itself on June nth, just nineteen days old. The head and 
neck were not well feathered until about six days after its first 
flight; the feathers over eyes and frontal of head were of a 
lighter brown tone than those immediately surrounding. 
On June loth, just seven days after the youngster made 
its exit from the nest, the Green-wing laid again in her old nest 
without any preparation, the second egg being laid on the 
following day. During the brooding of this second clutch of 
eggs the youngster was often with its parents on the nest, and 
