0 onthological Chronicle 
-'55 
Cm-tliroaf (Aiiiadina /usciiifd). 
Diamond Sparrow (Slf<:ai!i)plciirii s^itlldln). 
Aurora l''i'icli {I'yiclhi I'll ociiic opt era). 
lliclicMio's l"iiu-li (Stictoptcra biclioiori). 
( iol(lcii-l)rfaslc(l \\'axl)ill iSp<>ive};iiitliiis xiihfliii'us}. 
lava Sparrow {Miiiiia ()ry::iTorii ). 
Rufous-tailed (irasstinch (Ihitliildn nincaiKUi). 
L()ii<i-tailcd (irassfindi (Pocpliihi nciitiitiiidin. 
Masked (Jrasstiiich (P. pcrsoiiiUii). 
Parson Finch (/'. ciiic/Lt) 
(louldian Mncli (/'. i^Diildiac). 
I'arrot iMncli (Prytlinim psitlacca). 
(.'ordon r.leu { lis/rililii ph <ici:ic(itis ). 
Masked or C'a[ie l)o\ e ((),•/;,; ca pciisis ) . 
All lliese Ijirds were kept, winler and siininier, in open air 
aviaries standing;' against a wall: the top was covered with .glass 
near the wall and formed a shelter from the rain. M. Mayer 
adds that the Cut-throats and the Firertnches have only reared 
their young when he has been able to give them a liberal supply 
of fresh ant maggots. 
As regards birds being slow^ at changing colour, an 
example of which M. Decoux quoted in one of our back 
numbers. M. I'ierre Crepin informs us that, in a consignment of 
birds which he received last Spring from Senegal, quite a 
number of tliem, ])robably young males, have not changed 
their colour, so that out of six golden-ringed widow-birds three 
have chang'ed colour, and amongst the Dominican widow-birds 
only one out of six has assumed his love garments. Out of 
eighteen Igiiicolorcs a single one only has changed colour. 
It will be interesting to note whether all these young males 
assume their wedding plumes this sunmier, or whether some of 
them suffer an abnormal delay. 
M. A. Decoux writes: " At the end of (Jctober I housed 
three golden-ringed widow-birds, one in the room of birds 
looking south and strongly-heated, the other two in the room 
looking' north, into which I put those birds which do not like 
too high a temperature; it is equally heated, but the temperature 
is not as high (about 8 degrees C instead of 2t,.j^ degrees C.V 
It goes without saying that, on account of its jjosition, it is 
not as light. The widow-birds in bridal plumage have moulted, 
but only in March was the one in the room looking south com- 
pletely grev: the others had nut finished changing tlieir fcatliers, 
