The Singapore Myiiak. 
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Talkini;- of Bengalese reminds me tliat they are associated 
with the only F.B.C. medal I ever obtained. I tried hard to 
breed Bengalese, with no success, and at the same time an:l 
with the same result was doing- the same with the Tri-coloured 
Mannikin, and suddenly they made up their minds to breed, and 
a Bengalese hen and a Tricolour cock went to nest and reared 
me several lots of young. I suppose that in gratitude I sliould 
have kept the Tricolour until he died of a ripe old age, but 
candidly Mannikins rather bore me; their main objects in life 
are sitting still, eating, and occasionally uttering the plaintive 
song — if it can be called song. So one tine day I sold the lot — 
mother, father, brothers, sisters, cousins, atuits, and the othc 
birds had much more room. 
To be continued. 
C^fX^ 
The Singapore Mynah. 
By W. Shore B.mly. 
One sunny morning last autumn, being in the Eas: End 
of London, and having half an hotir to spare, I paid a call upon 
Mr. Hamlyn in the RatclifJe Highway, to see if he had anything" 
uncommon in the bird line. As it happened he had just rectived 
a consignment of live stock from the far East, and amongst this 
was a crate of Mynahs from Singapore. These birds werv, 
altogether larger than any of the Indian Hill Mynahs that I hav'': 
seen at the Zoo or elsewhere, and would be, I think, Eulabcs 
javancnsis. They were a healthy lot and looked very han 'some 
with their feathers glistening with wet, their Indian attt-ndan; 
having just given them a bath, evidently by the very simplr plan 
of turning the hose on them. It seemed to me that if a true 
pair could be picked out, there ought to be a fair chance of 
getting them to breed if we got a fine summer, so I asked Mrs. 
Hamlyn to try and select me a pair. In this she was entirely 
successful, although to the untrained eye there was no difference 
in the two birds. 
On their arrival thoy were turned into a large outdoor 
aviary containing some Patagonian Conures and some Pheas- 
