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Clutch — 3. Eggs olive green, densely streaked and 
blotched with dark brown, and are very similar both in size, 
shape and colour, to those of the Red-crested Cardinal, being 
really large for the size of the bird. 
Xcst. Very compact and strongly put together, is com- 
posed of the thin wiry twigs of the maidenhair bush, and lined 
with a little fine wiry grass and pampas grass. (The Red-crests 
used exactly the same materials except that in their case the 
lining was composed of a little brown cow hair, and it was not 
so strongly woven together). 
I )ictibatioii period thirteen days; young left nest in 
thirteen days, and commenced to fend for itself on the eleventh 
day after leaving the nest, being entirely on its own two day? 
later. Commenced to eat cracked hemp and sunflower fifteen 
days after leaving the nest, and was actually singing on July 
3rd. The song is quite pleasing, but extremely weak and low^ 
Disposition. Butler calls this " a gentle little bird," but 
in my experience it is, for its size, extremely pugnacious, and, 
like its larger relatives, nothing really affords it greater joy 
than to give chase to smaller and weaker birds. I certainly 
should not trust it with waxbills. etc., myself, but it is a charm- 
ing little bird, cjuite the nicest and most confiding of the 
cardinals, I think, and it will agree very well with any of this 
group of birds, bar the Popes. Butler also remarks in Foreign 
Finches in Captivity " that this bird cannot raise the red feath- 
ering on the head at will." This statement is, however, 
incorrect, for the cock can and frequently does raise these 
feathers, at the same time spreading out its tail fanwise; this 
fcrms part of the usual sexual display, and, moreover, the young 
bird, a young cock, very frequently indulges in the same kind 
of performance. 
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Pelicans : We reproduce in this issue several photos of 
this somewhat ungainly species, which were taken by the late 
Lieut. Frank Dawson-Smith at the Zoological Gardens, 
Alexandria. 
Unfortunately no notes have come to hand with them, 
and, we fear, none are likely to reach us now. Some of the 
