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apparently safe to mix with the smaller fry, but one never knows 
what may happen when the breeding season arrives. 
A delightfully tame Senegal Parrot, who is a woman- 
hater, and a cage containing a Blue and a few Blue-bred 
Budgerigars share my sitting room with me and complete the 
list of birds now in my possession. 
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The Nesting of the Yellow Seed-finch. 
By VV. Shore Baily. 
The season 1921 has been, on the whole, quite an inter- 
esting one in my aviaries, for although 1 have been unable to 
record many successes I have had several attempts with species 
new to the aviaries, and in some cases new to aviculture. 
Among these failures the nesting of the Yellow Seed-finch 
{Sycalis lutea) is perhaps the most interesting. 
My pair of birds came to me from a private importer last 
autumn, and at first I had some difficulty in identifying them; 
even now I cannot be absolutely certain that my identification 
is accurate. 
The following is a description given in Hudson's Arge)t- 
tine 0 niitliology of the Yellow Seed-finch : 
Male: (iencral body colour dark Ntdlow , rump and l)ody below 
brig-bler ; wings and tail brownish-black edged with yellow; under wing- 
coverts pale yellow; inner margins of wing-feathers [lale bruwn. Whole 
" length 5.5 inches, wing 3.-', tail J.i. 
" Female : Similar, but duller and more brownish." 
" Habitat : Andes of Peru, LSolivia and Argentina." 
This description fits my birds very closely but omits one 
very important distinction. All my birds have a pale buffish- 
white eyelash, which makes them look as if they were wearing 
spectacles. I cannot conceive how anyone, having seen these 
birds in the flesh, could fail to notice this, as this marking is 
almost as prominent as in the little White-eyed Zosterops. 
Other South American Finches to which my birds might 
be referred, are the Misto Seed-finch (Sycalis lutcola) and the 
Meadow Seed-finch (Orcospica pratensis). but neither of these 
little birds are said to have the yellow under wing-coverts, and 
