194 Notes of Lcadenham House Avkr'ies. 
needs no door, simply an open doorway. In the northern 
counties probably a door for winter use would be preferable, 
with only a smallish opening-, say about one foot square, for 
ingress and egress. 

1920 Notes of Leadenham House Aviaries. 
Bv C.M'T. J. S. Rkkvk, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
The Editor has been clamouring for an account of my 
avicultural successes (or the reverse!) for some time past. 
Well, as I have only one pre-war inmate of my aviaries, who 
went away soldiering with me and survived the Great War to 
return to his old home, perhaps it may be of interest to enu- 
merate my new collection. 
Xo. I Aviary: A pair of Red-rump Parrakeets 
[Pscphotus haematonotus) have bred twice, one nice pair of 
their progeny now being in the Zoo Parrot House (a second 
voung cock of this brood died), and I have two young cocks 
from the second nest now about to be sold. On each occasion 
I hid to shut up the old cock as he was very jealous of the 
young cocks and drove them about. 
A pair of 'i"i-iangu]ar-Spott:d Pi'';eons (CoUi)uha pJiacoi- 
nta). bought from Zoo, have bred twice, and, I believe, again 
li ive voung in the nest : the first pair left the nest on May 30th; 
on July 17th one young bird left the nest, being followed by the 
second, five days later; they do not leave the nest until fully 
grown and able to fly. The skin round the eye begins to colour 
in about a month, but the immature plumage has not the sheen 
or vividity of the adult. 
A pair of Barbary Doves {T Hrtiir risorlous), " received on 
Deposit " as the Zoo says, have bred four times, the first leaving 
tlie nest on May 4th, and the last on September 2nd; on eacl 
occcasion but one they have refused to rear more than rnc. 
though two were hatched every time ! 
A pair of Common Quail (Cotiiniix co'y.ruix') are as t;imf 
(IS chickens, bitt have made no aftempt to nest. 
