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Successful Nesting of Grenadier Jl'eaz'crs. 
A second nest was built in a laurel in September, and two 
more young ones were fully reared, so I now have a little flock 
of six, and shall have some difficulty in picking out tne parent 
birds if I want to dispose of the young ones. 
The Grenadier Weaver is a very handsome bird, but 
hardly so beautiful as the Crimson-crowned, which bird 1 believe 
has yet to be bred in an aviary in this country.* 
The accompanying photo shows the young weaver j-.i-^'. 
leaving the nest. 
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Nesting Notes for 1921 
By Maurice Amsler, M.B. 
The past season has been a disappointing one with me — 
partly because several of my birds had bad records from previous 
seasons, or because they were acttially of species which do not 
frequently go to nest ; also because the spring and summer have 
been so abnormally hot. 
Although most of our foreign birds come from tropical 
or sub-tropical regions I have noticed that when acclimatised to 
oi:r climate they seem to prefer a moderate temperature and a 
moderate rainfall; an exception to this was the summer of 191 1, 
when I nearly reared young of the Golden-fronted Fruitsucker 
(Philornis aurifrons) on three successive occasions. I never 
again got beyond infertile eggs with this species, and I have 
always put down my previous success to the abnormal heat of 
that summer. 
There is here a fair-sized shelter shed divided into four. 
Each one of these divisions has an outer flight about 20ft. long, 
these aviaries I have called i, 2, 3 and 4. I have also three other 
smaller affairs varying from loft. to i8ft. long where I remove 
birds which look like breeding and which are either being inter- 
fered with or are themselves becoming aggressive to their 
companions. 
No. I Aviary: This contained a mixture of waxbills 
* The Crimson-crowned Weaver (P. flammiceps) fully reared two young 
birds in my aviary last season (1920) ; vide B.N. 1920, pp. 223-5. — Ed. 
