fhrongh the lU-acUiau Wilderness. 
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Britons! ) are as follows: Pairs of 'i'witcs. Bramblings, Siskins 
(cock now dead), Cirl lUnitinj^s, and since breeding season ended 
Crested Tits and Crossbills. One of the Tits was a nestling of 
this year; I bought them from He Von; they are very tame and 
seem to eat the hem]) supplied for the Crossbills (who live on 
it ). They now take little or none of the soft food, but catch live 
insects for themselves. 
An Interesting Episode. 
By VVksley T. Pack, IvZ.S., M.B.O.U. 
During the wet period of July-August the bushes in my 
large aviary became overgrown, covered on the top with the 
wild white-fiowered convolvulus. When attending to the birds 
at mid-day on September 14th, I heard, at the other end of the 
aviary, young clamouring for food, but being very pressed could 
not locate them. On the evening of the next day I heard the 
sound again, as 1 was going down the side walk to the aviary 
entrance almost opposite to me; from the screening of a thick 
growth of loganberry I stood still and watched, my point 
of vision being centered on the shadowed interior of a golden 
privet bush; almost at once a cock Crimson-crowned Weaver 
(Pyromclana jlammiceps) appeared, entering from far side of 
bush, and fed a young bird, either on branch or entrance to 
nest — the former, I think, but apart from the brilliant colour of 
the adult all else was obscure shadow, save for the slight move- 
ment and clamouring of the young bird. At mid-day heavy rain 
set in, which may quench my hopes of rearing this species, but 
I hope to be able to give further details in next issue. 
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Through the Brazillian Wilderness — Birds. 
[As hciny of gri-at intcri'st to our readers we have made extracts (willi 
apologies and best thanks lo the pubhshersj lion! diis LIVE book of the 
parts referring to the avifauna of this area. — Ed. 13. N.] 
By Theodore Roosevelt. 
Continued from page iy2. 
Up the Paraguay: " On one ride we passed a clump 
of palms which were fairly ablaze with bird colour. There 
