Murv Notes of the Season. 
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youui,^ Yellow-billed Cardinals. 1 fancy I stated that their 
down was black in colour, but on closer investigation of the 
second nest of youny, 1 find that they are sparsely covered with 
dirty grey-coloured down, not black. The small quill feathers 
are l)lack, and this, when one just takes a rapid peep into the 
nest, whicli was all I dared to do to the first nest, gives one the 
ini rossion that the nestlings are covered with black down. 
.\s will ])e L'athered from the above the Yellow-bills have 
nested again and duly hatched out three young birds as before, 
but unhappily, when the chicks were about ten days old, they 
were thrown out and murdered during the course of a fracas 
between the Green Cardinals and the Yellow-bills; I came on the 
scene just too late to avert the disaste'r, but one young bird was 
still alive when picked up, but badly pecked. I replaced it in 
the nest, but it only survived another day. They have now 
(August 1st) constructed a new nest and look as though about 
to lay again. 
Since my last notes the following have also successfully 
reared young : 
Red-headed Fi.\ch x Cutthroat {Amadina erythrocc- 
f'hala X A. fasciata): Three (two cocks and one hen) fully 
reared: and there is now another batch of young, ten days old, 
in the nest. 
Red-headed Finxhes (Amadina erythroccphala) : Two 
successfully reared at last ! The old pair are now incubating 
again. 
(loLD-BREASTED Waxbills [S p orac ginthus siibflavus) : 
Ahev one clutch of infertile eggs these have now reared two 
young birds, and are now busy incubating another clutch of 
eggs. 
RuFus Mannikixs {Spcnncstcs iiigriccps) : These have 
reared four more and both i)airs are incubating once again. 
White Java Sparrows {Mituia oryzivora) : One pair 
have young in nest, same pair as before. The pair in the barn 
aviary are still fooling around with nesting material, but make 
no advance on this. 
(iRKK.v Cardi.vals (C ub cnuitrix cristata): The youngster 
which was hatched while the Hon. Editor was staying here, is 
