Visits to Members' Aviaries. 
Olive Finches: Two broods fully reared and nesting 
again. 
Br,ACKi5iRDS : A hen of our indigenous species so tome 
that it allowed one to stroke it, without leaving the nest,: 
though without a mate she nested and laid a clutch of eggs. 
These were replaced by eggs taken from a hedgerow in 
the garden, and were duly hatched out and the young fully 
reared . 
Yellow Bunting: A brood was successfully reared and 
yecame fully fledged, but died almost at once, after leaving 
the nest. 
The above records all refer to the large aviary and 
are not inclusive. Some of the aviaries are given up to 
Pheasants, of which Mr. Willford has some rare and beautiful 
species, viz.; Versicolor, Swinhoe's, E^lliott's, Kalij, Silver, 
Gold, Amherst, Reeve's, Impeyan, Mongolian, and Scem- 
merring's. Twenty -five young have been fully reared, mostly 
under foster-parents, though some have been brought up by 
the respective species, as seen in the photo opposite, which 
represents the parents and brood wandering amid the natural 
wildness of the Waders' Aviary. 
Passing through another aviary, containing a group of 
Elliott's Pheasants in exquisite plumage, I had an opportunity 
of examining the nest of a pair of Diuca Finches, containing 
a iclutch of eggs. 
In another aviary, which, except for the paths, was 
a mass of tangled wild growth, wild convolvulus, climbing over 
and almost burying gooseberry bushes, apple trees, etc.; here, 
in a gooseberry bush, almost ])uried in a tangle of wild creep- 
ers was a nest of the Black Tanager, containing a clutch 
of eggs; from four nests, this pair have fully reared, but 
one young bird. Passing into the next aviarj% similarly wild, 
we inspected the nest of the Grey -winged Ouzel, containing a 
clutch of eggs. It was a typical nest of the true Thrush- 
type, constructed in the fork of a branch of an apple tree, 
and had a mud base. 
I have refrained from giving a list of all the birds 
seen here, as we have had many accounts from Mr. Will- 
ford's pen, and I desire that others may follow, including 
photos of the nests referred to in above notes. 
