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due course three young' birds were hatched, and I was much 
mterested to see how long they would survive without a supply 
of live food. I supplied " Dryko " in addition to the seed 
mixtui'e, also a little stale bread. After four or live days 1 
discovered that the cock Starling had returned and was bring- 
ing in grubs and other insects from the outside. Most careful 
watching failed to reveal how he got in and lout, and I thought 
for some time that he was feeding the hen through the wires, 
but at last I happened to see him come out of a hole that 
looked too small for a mouse to come through. Though he 
must have been in and out frequently, he was never seen in 
the aviary (after the first occasion) till the young weret fully 
grown. I stopped up the hole he was using as an exit and 
the next morning he was trapped, but as he seemed quite un- 
able to find his entrance hole from the intciior, after an hour 
or two I removed the obstruction fioni the hole he had been 
using as an exit, and he very quickly found his way out, 
taking two of the young ones with him. 
The hen I still have, as she is, I suppose, too big to 
use either of the holes. I hope to cross-mate her next year. 
Jamaica Pea Dove. 
(Zenaida amahilis). 
By Dk. Gr. B. Thwaites. 
Early in May a pair of these birds was brought over 
to me by a friend from Jamaica where they had shortly before 
been caught. In a short time a nest was made under an upturned 
broken flower-pot, and consisted of nothing but a few dried 
bamboo leaves. Two dirty white, blunt pointed eggs were 
laid and diligently incubated, but without result as they were 
not fertile; another clutch was laid in June while I was away 
from home and one young squab was hatched out about the 
end of June. I did not see the eggs, so can not say if 
there were two or only one, or what happened if there was 
a full clutch. 
A third nest was made about a fortnight later, the 
first ,egg being laid on July 15th, and the other the next 
day. The birds took it in turn to ait, the cock, however, 
was much more restless on the nest than the hen, as he al- 
