Nesting Notes of the Season. 
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breeding vigour to tlie cock bird. I really only accepted them, 
as being probably useful as foster parents for the eggs of other 
Doves. 
The next young birds to appear were Indian Silverbills 
(Aideniosyne malabarica). I had not noted them going to nest, 
but one morning found a young bird, dead but fully fledged, 
beneath a rush nest in the shelter. I then looked around and 
found two others in the bushes in the aviary, still being fed by 
their parents, and one addled egg in the nest; both these 
youngsters are now fending for themselves, and their parents 
are now incubating another clutch of eggs in the same nest. 
A week later 1 saw three young Avadavats on the wing. 
I then searched for and found the nest with little trouble. It 
uas the usual and rather large, rough outwardly, domed nest 
with an entrance hole at the front, woven around the stems of 
a thick and densely foliaged privet-bush. I have six or seven 
cocks and two hens in the aviary, and, I think, the same pair are 
nesting again. 
I next noticed a pair of Turtle Doves (Turtur turtur) 
incubating a couple of eggs. I have five of this species in my 
aviary, all of which were caught last year on my small poultry 
farm. A squabble among these and a pair of Vinaceosu Turtle 
Doves (7". I'iiiaccHs) resulted in the eggs being broken when 
about due to hatch; they contained two perfectly formed chicks. 
The pair laid another clutch (in tlie same nest), which they incu 
bated, hatched and successfully reared. These two young 
birds are much duller and browner than their parents, tli-; wing 
chequering indistinct, and they lack the black and wb.'e neck 
patches of the adult bird. 
The Vlnaceous Turtle Doves have spent their time, so 
far, trying to construct a nest of sticks and bents in a standard 
ash ; only to have it shaken to pieces again and again by the 
alighting of other Doves and birds in the tree. They .\rc. now 
taking an interest in a box, fixed high up in the cove-'vl part 
of the flight, so they yet may rear young this season. 
I have noticed other birds carrying nesting material, 
including the Himalayan Siskins and Red-vented Bulbuls, but 
so far have neither discovered nest nor seen any young. 
