Ncsti)ig Nofcs for 192T. 
In 19J0 the lien was sold to me by our Editor, as a youn"" 
male; she is one of the finest specimens I have ever seen. My 
old male soon began to feed her, and she took all she could get. 
The sole result was a few straws laid in the fork of an old elm- 
stump at the end of the summer. 
This year the cock again began to feed the hen in the early 
spring-, and on my return from abroad in April I found a large 
imtidy nest composed of coarse hay, which had been 
built by the male. I had great hopes that the hen 
would " carry on," but she never carried a single straw, and 
has continued up to now, after the moult, to accept every meal- 
worm or other insect which the cock could find. 
These are, in my opinion, amongst the most beautiful of 
the thrushes, and the male has a very sweet song. They have 
one fault, and this varies with different pairs, viz : — one or other 
bird bullies and chases its mate during the winter so that they 
frequently have to be separated and carefully watched when put 
together again in the spring. 
My Swainson's Lorikeets {T richoglossus )iuz'ac-lioUaiuiiac) 
which have been here since 1916, have a small separate aviary 
and rear from three to five couples of young each year. They 
never stop nesting, in fact I have never had clear eggs in winter, 
whereas both this summer and last there has been one clutch 
which was infertile. 
So far this season six young have been reared (two is the 
invariable clutch with me), and the birds are again sitting. 
My last and perhaps the most interesting note concerns 
King Parrakeets {A prosmictiis cyanopyghis), a pair of which I 
bought in July 1920 — they had attempted to nest with their pre- 
vious owner, 1)ut for some reason the result was nil. 
They wintered in an aviary with a pair of Yucatan Jays ; in 
Ai)ril I gave them a small wired-in flight to themselves and 
provided two very large nest boxes : these they never even 
looked at, but pairing took place in early May, and on T3th I 
noticed the hen digging a hole in the earth; on iSth, 20th, 21st, 
23rd and 25th eggs were laid on the ground. These I collected 
together in a small hollow which I made myself in the soil 
surrounded by four bricks laid on edge and covered over by a 
piece of corrugated iron bent into a semi-circle. The hen sat 
