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pliimng^rd hird, white on tho head and neck and the greater part 
of tho body and below, black with a metallic sheen on the wings 
and tail. Tlio while parts are nearly everywhere washed with 
pink, while on the ujipor and lower wing -coverts this pink !)ecomes 
a lovely I'osy hand. The face and upper throat is bare and red, 
the bill yellow, <'ylindrical in section and d3curve<l towards the tip, 
the legs red-pink with black toes. In the young the plumage is 
much mottled with brown and the pink wash is absent or very 
indistinct. 
To he continued . 
Further Notes on the Breeding of Tanagers. 
By Dr. J. Easton Scott. 
In the March issue of the present volume of Bird 
Notes we had some notes on the breeding of the Blue Tanagcr 
(Tanagra episcopus) and mention was made of several at- 
tempts last year on the part of the Scarlets (THianiphoccphis 
brazilius) to attain the same result. The latter species have 
at last been successful, and, as I believe it is the first time 
these birds have been reared in captivity, a few notes on the 
subject may be of interest. 
The parents are the same two birds that were mentioned 
in the March number, anfl have spent the winter out of doors. 
All tho time they have been exceedingly fit, and after the 
spring moult, the cock became most handsome, his garment 
of fiery scarlet and velvet-black, being very tight and silken, 
and the hues very intense. These birds have always been 
wild and shy, and usually fly off to the other end of tlie aviary 
upon anyone's approach. They become much more confiding 
when feeding young, but even then they much prefer to have 
their mealworms thrown to them through the wire -netting 
which roofs the flight, and they are the most agile of any of 
my birds at catching their food on the wing. They have 
also proved themselves very amicable with the other inmates 
of the aviary, which is more than can be said of all mem- 
bers of the species, for, during the present spring another 
pair in an adjoining aviary have worked so much havoc 
amongst the other birds that they had eventually to be shut 
up in a place by themselves. 
After a somewhat clamorous love-making, the birds 
