10 Breeding Orange-headed Ground Thrush, etc. 
and there has been more than one abortive attempt at re- 
producing their kind. 
This year they have been more persistent, but did 
not achieve full success at their first attempt. 
In May last my pair of Orange-headed Ground Thrushes 
constructed a nest, under the roof of the covered portion of 
their flight, the site chosen being the broad ledge of a nest- 
box which was fixed about 12 feet above ground level; moss 
was used as a foundation, it was very neatly put together, 
and lined with fine grass -stems. The clutch consisted of 
three eggs, pale blue, thickly blotched and spotted with rufous, 
especially 'so at the stouter ends. 
Three young ones were duly hatched out, which throve 
for a week or ten days, when they were found dead' on the 
ground at some distance from the nest— apparently they had 
died first and their bodies then removed by their parents. 
No other bird was observed to attack the nest, and I do 
not think any mouse did either, but American Eobins -may 
have been the culprits. 
The young birds were well developed and just be- 
ginning to feather— pale butt' could be seen on the breast 
at the tip of the (luills. Their death was a great disa-p- 
pointment to me, but a keen aviculturist has many, and must 
be prepared for them. 
Undeterred by the above misfortune, they immediately 
set to work and repaired the old nest, which 1 later found 
was firmlv plastered on to the shelf of the nest -box— wet earth 
had been used and on the top of this the nest had been placed. 
A good supply of ants' eggs, wasps' grubs, cockroaches, 
etc., enabled them to rear the one young bird which wa^ 
duly hatched out. I believe it to be a female, as it has 
now fully moulted the nestling plumage. In the latter, the 
upper part of its head and shouldei's were cinnamon brown; 
wingii a much deeper brown with greenish tinge, and straw 
coloured spots to the tips of wing coverts, forming two bars 
acres.; each wing. The cheeks, fawn-coloured variegated with 
a darker hue, the throat and whole under surface also fawn 
colour, with a dusky brown band (indistinct) across the breast. 
These lovely Thrushes are fine songsters, but as with 
all species, some individuals are more talented than others. 
