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Shore Baily (ist) 1915. See B.N. 1918, 233. 
Add (same page) after White-winged Whydah 
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giA.— YELLOW-BACKED WHYDAH {Pcnthctiiopsls macroura). 
Hybrids. 
X Yellow-backed Whydah (Red-collared Whydah). 
The entries of the birds to which the two next refer not hav ng yet 
appeared. I can only give them for future note. 
0 
220.— BLACKBIRD THRUSH HYBRIDS. 
For further information, see Crabb, B.N. 1917, 272, and in litt. 
0— 
BARBARY DOVE x SENEGAL DOVE. 
Whitley, see B.N. 1917, 272. 
FINIS. 
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The 'PiREFiKCii ( Lagonosticta )iiin'uiia) is another bird 
which has always done well with me; certainly their lives are 
not long, but I have had them out of doors all the winter without 
any ill effects, and yet they die when you least expect it! 
This was one of the first species to rear young" with me 
and , although time has faded the details from my mind, I can 
still recollect my pleasure when I first heard young Firefinches in 
the nest, and when they flew I was very proud indeed. 
If, or perhaps I should say when. I start a finch aviary 
again, a pair or several pairs will certainly find a place therein. 
The Diamond Sparrow ( Stcganoplenra guttata) is a 
species of which you will find that one pair breeds well while 
the next pair merely builds. I, luckily, obtained a breeding 
pair, and young left the nest in January, and what is more, lived 
