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JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB 
The Nesting of the Stripe-headed Grosbeak. 
Poliospiza gularis. 
By W. Shore Baily. 
This iMther plainly-coloured little bird is, I beli-^ve, fairW 
fre(|uently imported, and usually conies over with consignments 
cf Mnches and Weavers from the east coast of Africa. It is 
generally quite cheap. Probably its plain colouration and lack 
of song make it a poor seller with the public As far rs I know 
i< has not yet been bred in this country. 
In the Spring of 1920 I bought seven or eight of these 
birds, and turned them into an aviary with a few other small 
birds. The whole of the summer they did nothing, simply 
spending their time hopping aimlessly about the branches and 
consuming seed. In the autumn I transferred them with a lot 
of other birds to an indoor aviary. An invasion of rats took 
off most of them, and in the spring I found myself left with one 
solitary example. On visiting the bird shops in London a week 
or two later, I secured another, and this bird I turned, with the 
1920 survivor, straight into my largest aviary. I saw very 
little of them for several weeks, as they are somewhat shy and 
unobtrusive birds, but at the end of July I saw one of them 
playing with a feather. A few days later I found a neat little 
nest, built close to the stem of a willow. Moss, cotton-wool, 
and paper were the materials used, and the interior was lined 
with swan's down. Three eggs were laid, white, lightly marked 
with small brown spots. The hen sat very steadily for ten 
dnys, but alas! the eggs were infertile, so I removed them for 
my collection. 
In October she again went to nest : three more eggs were 
