236 Rearing Ringed Plovers from the Egg. 
they constantly uttered a sharp, shrill cry, and would always 
answer me if I whistled to them. After they were able to fly, 
I often let them loose in a large and lofty billiard room which 
was not in use, and they would fly about for some time, 
appearing to enjoy their comparative liberty. 
They were very fond of bathing, and, when their dish of 
water was placed in their case, they would rush at it and jump 
and make a great fuss, often remaining" in the water some time; 
then they would come out almost drowned; but as soon as they 
got a bit dry in they would go again. But tney were particular 
that the water should be clean. 
I regret that I made but one or two notes of the growth 
of the feathers. On June ist, the twentieth day after they were 
hatched, the primary feathers were half an inch long, and the 
body feathers w-ere pust beginning to show under the down. 
I always put them into the incubator at night until they 
were about two months old, and then I kept them in a closed 
cage in a warm room. During the day they were kept in a 
covered-in wired run. When they were about twelve weeks 
old, a tragedy occurred which caused me to lose them both. A 
Magpie managed to sieze and kill one through the wire, and 
the other chick died soon after, either from fright or solitude. 
I think this, at the time at any rate, was the first time of 
rearing this interesting species from the egg, and if there are 
any later occurrences of similar success I should like to hear 
of them. 
I also reared a Moorhen in the same way 
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Acclimatisation in the Isle of Mauritius. 
By Paul G.^rie. 
[This article appeared in the Buletin de la Societe Nationalc d' 
Acclimation for September 1916. We reprint the following 
extracts therefrom (translated by Maj. A. E. Snape, R.A.F.) 
with our apologies and thanks to the Author and Editors. — Ed. 
B.N.] 
21. Agapornis cana. Gm. 
Though it is generally considered that these small paro- 
