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JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB 
The Breeding of the Chingolo Song-Sparrow. 
Bv W. Shork Baily. 
My pair of ChinL;olos {Zonatrichia pilcata) came from tlie 
Ari^entine in October last. I got a third bird from Brazil, ,i 
month or two later, which 1 believe to be a hen. They are 
pretty and interesting little birds, but do not seem to be very 
frequently imported. • I have no doubt that they have been bred 
in some of our members' aviaries,^' but I cannot recollect having 
seen any account of their doing so in our magazine. My birds 
are all alike, so I cannot be certain of their sex, but one of them 
sings very nicely, which I take to be the cock. 
About the middle of June I noticed that two of them were 
very restless, following me all over the aviary, dodging in and 
out of the bushes and trees, and acting very much as our own 
birds do when one approaches their nests. . A most careful 
search was not rewarded with success. A few days later 1 
noticed one of them carrying a piece of soaked bread in its beak, 
so I was practically certain that it had young. A further search 
for the nest was still unsuccessful, but the next day, on renewing 
my efforts, I flushed one of the old birds from the nest; this was 
situated in a hole on the bank of the pond and not three feet 
from the water. It was, as can be seen from the photo, quite 
open on the front, and should have been easily seen, but its 
surroundings camouflaged it to a great extent. It was built 
of grass and lined with hair, and contained two well-feathered 
young ones and two clear eggs. A few days later the two 
young ones ran from the nest just like larks, and were soon 
* Was first bred by Mr. Teschemaker. and later by the London Zoo. — Ed. 
