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Nesting Notes of the Season. 
(ireen Cardinals (G iibcruatrix cristata) have been nestinj' 
and incubating most of the season, but so far have not brought 
off any young. 
Red Ground Doves (G cotry^on montana). For the past 
two years my pair of birds have ^^asled time and effort v.i trjing 
to nest on aviary-slielter floor, only to get eggs broken on I'ach 
wccasion; at least six times in all. This year they continued the 
':':ne senseless progrannne and the first three clutches vera all 
abortive in consequence. Then in June last they did i;e;.''in to 
take an interest in a box, with the result that two young promis- 
ing squabs were hatched out and one fully reared. The old 
birds are now nearing the end of the incubation of another 
clutch in the same nest box. 
To date, this is the sum total of results in my large mixed 
aviary; the large number of odd birds therein may account for 
some pairs not going to nest. 
I have only one pair of Parrakeets, a pair of Stanley's, 
which I procured from the Marquis of Tavistock in Lite 191'^ 
and were birds of the year. They occupy an aviary with a 
shelter 8ft. x 8ft. and a flight 12ft. x lift., and have with them 
an odd cock Blossom-head Parrakeet, and an Indian Rock 
Parrot, sex still uncertain. These went to nest in early June, 
and three young Parrakeets left the nest in July; one of these 
was weakly and died about a week after its exit from the nest- 
barrel ; the other two (males) are vigorous young birds and 
fending for themselves. The old pair have gone to nest again, 
though the cock is in full moult. 
Tlie doings of my Blue-fronted Amazons I have told in a 
separate article. 
In a similar sized aviary I have pairs of Bush Mynahs 
(A cridothcrcs fiisciis). Red-vented Bulbuls (Pycnonotus bcngal- 
f s!s), and Aurita Ltmes {Zcnaida ciirit'.i). which have not a>. 
yet gone to nest. 
I have not, with one exception, atten.ipted any Pheasant- 
rearing this year. The eggs from my pair of I'liasianus tor- 
quatus have gone to friends. Of the eggs from a hen Ring-neck 
mated to a cock Gold Pheasant I set thirteen under a La Bresse 
