All Eights Reserved. Au(;ust, 1912 
BIRD NOTES: 
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JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 
The Breeding of the Grenadier Weaver 
(Euplectcs joryx). 
By R. S. DE QUINC'EY QuiNCEYi 
I have had these birds since May, 1909, but this year 
(1912J is the first that I have really been successful with 
thoni. In 1909 the cock built a nest, in which the hen laid 
two blue eggs, of the same size, colour and shape as those 
of the Hedge Accentor. 
Later, she laid two eggs on the (ground, but there was 
no attempt at incubation on either occasion, and the last clutch 
were in too exposed a position. 
In 1910 and 1911 the cock built numerous nests, but 
nothing further has happened, so that this year, when he had 
built five nests, I thought 'that they were still going on in 
their old way, and that they would never get any further. 
True, it was noticed that each time anyone passed the aviary, 
the hen flew out of one of the nests, but we thought nothing 
of that as she had acted similarly in previous years, thus no 
interest was taken until June 6th, when the cock began to 
pull out the front of the nest (see plate), and on June 7th 
two young birds flew. They are exactly similar to the cock 
wnen out of colour, the hen being a little darker than the 
cock or the young ones. 
At first both parents fed them but on 23rd June it 
was noticed that the hen only did so. On the 25th, instead of 
roosting in the gorse with their parents, they slept in the 
shelter. On the 30th the young were observed picking jat 
millet sprays, and generally hunting for food on the ground, 
while the parents were not seen feeding them at all, and on 
July 2nd they were eating heartily of both canary and millet 
seeds. The male parent bird drove the apparent young cock 
about until he got him up to a newly commenced nest in a young 
silver birch, and there he taught the youngster how to weave 
