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My Ainarics and Birds. 
I had better preface my roug'h notes of the occupants 
by saying- that they were put out rather late and most of the 
beautiful sprinj^ weather was lost — though the occupants are 
fairly numerous as will be seen, they have given no trouble — 
Euficaudas chased each other a bit at first, l>oth pairs wanting 
the same privet bush for a nestmg site, but this matter soon 
adjusted itself, the only real trouble was a Paradise Whydah 
and this had to be caught up and put elsewhere. 
This aviary contains the following pairs : — 
GouLDiAN Finches (Poephila gouldda"). I have two 
pairs, a pair of Eed- headed and a ^uixed pair Eed and Black - 
headed. Both pairs have been in the husks and have looked 
like nesting again and again, but there has been no result, 
however both pairs are really nesting now, so there may yet 
be some young Gouldian Finches. I have often admired 
these birds winging their way round the aviary, and have 
not found them so lethargic as their general reputation led me 
to suppose. 
Diamond Finch or Sparrows {Steganoplnirn giiffnfa). 
This pair were put out late, but they have built in a Hartz 
cage, and are, I think, incubating. 
Nonpareil Buntings (Ci/anospiza ciris). These com- 
menced a nest on the top of a privet bush, but they gave 
up, owing-, I think, to the wet, the site being a very ex- 
posed one and I have not observed any further attempts. 
Pin- TAILED Nonpareils (Eryfhrura prasina). Sev- 
eral times I have observed both the cock and hen carrying 
nesting material, but I do not think a nest has been com- 
pleted. ' I ' i ' 
RuFicAUDA Finches (Bathilda ruficanda). Two pairs 
of this species are in the aviary and ]>oth have built and 
each had two clutches of eggs, and both pairs are again in- 
cubating for the third time, but I have seen no results, how- 
ever, there are evidently more Inrds in the aviary than I 
thought and till cover gets a little less dense, it is not pos- 
sible to tell what there really are. 
Masked Grassfinches (Porphiln pprsojiata) . Of these 
I have two pairs and both pairs have built several nests 
and laid clutches of eggs— result: three young Masks fully 
