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Aviary Notes for 1912. 
pair of Jacarini Finchco {Volatinia jacarbii) after playing- 
with nesting- material for two months, have at last built in 
a clematis against a wall, six feet off the ground, and are sitting-, 
ting on three eggs. 
A pair of Indigo Buntings {C iianospiza ci/anca), in a 
large open aviary have built somewhere, for T have seen 
them carrying about material, and I have seen them i)air, but 
have failed to discover their nest. 
A hen English Bullfinch mated to a Siberian Goldfinch, 
laid four eggs, all fertile. 
A hen Greenfinch, reared in my aviary last year, has 
paired with a Chaffinch, and has built a nest on a wooden 
ledge, and laid five eggs. 
A large Norwich hen, mated to a cock Greenfinch, has 
laid four eggs, all fertile. 
My Budgerigars have been very prolific. 
My Zebra Finches have had nest after nesr, and pro- 
duced nothing. Two pairs of Gouidians, and three pairs of 
Pintail Nonpareils are in tip -top fettle, and look like nesting. 
Pairs of Blackcaps, Silverbills, Bib Fmches, and Goldfinches, 
have all been carrying about nesting material, but I have not 
yet seen their nests. 
I noted the following rarer wild British birds, between 
May 10th, and May 20th. Six pairs of Pied Flycatchers all 
in one Avood, on the banks of the river, near here (Sussex); 
I also saA\ ten Buzzards on the wing, in one place in a south- 
ern county. I was told that there were at least a dozen pairs 
of Buzzards in that ueigh1>ourhood, and that the farmers were 
beginning to complain of the toll they levied on the chickens. 
If this is the case, I am afraid that the Buzzard will 
share the same fate as the Little Owl. 
Young Queen Alexandra Parrakeets. 
(Spaihopterus Alexandra) . 
By Hubekt D. Astley. M.A.. F.Z.S.. M.B.O.U., Err': 
A pair of these beautiful Parrakeets went to nest in 
April, the hen laying in a long box, at the end of wihich 
is a cup -shaped depression, into which I had previously placed 
