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half of February, and the beginning of March, I found several young 
ones in the burrows, often only one, and never more than two together. 
In one case I found a rotten egg beside the young one. Generally, 
but not always, an old bird was found with the young one in the 
burrow j no exact nest is made, the Kakapo digging out only a shallow 
depression in the dry mass of decayed wood.’ Authorities Haast, Lyell, 
George Grey, quoted by Dr. Brehm. 
'^Eing-necked Parrakeet {Psittacus torquatus). Mn order to rear 
his young family’, says Blyth, 'he establishes himself not only in gardens, 
plantations, or shady trees, on the roads or waysides, but also in suit- 
able cavities in large buildings, in the clefts and holes of walls.’ 
'"The breeding-season of the Eiug-necked Pari-ot’, as we learn from 
Jerdon, 'occurs in the months of January, February, and March; in 
the centre of Africa, the rainy season, which is followed by spring, is 
the time for reproduction. In India, as already mentioned, not only 
trees are selected as nesting places, but all kinds of other cavities, even 
those in the most widely differing buildings : in Africa, hollows in trees 
only are chosen.’ Quoted by Drs. Brehm and Euss. 
"The Quaker or Bog Parrot, PeiTuche moine, ou souris; Monks, 
Quaker, yunge Witwe {Psittacus monachus), 'Builds large open nests 
on trees, which often exceed a metre (three feet) in diameter, closed 
in at the top, and lined with grasses; often several are found in one 
tree, and several hen birds lay their eggs in the same nest.’ — Azara, 
confirmed in all particulars by Darwin and others; bred in captivity 
by Schmidt, and in the Berlin Aquarium: a picture of the nest was 
drawn by Miitzel for Dr. Brehm’ s Birds. 
"Peach-faced Love-birds and Grey-headed Love-birds also make nests 
as described by Dr. Karl Euss, Mr. Wiener, myself (Mrs. Cassirer), and 
others.” 
An extremely interesting account of the nest-building propensities 
of the Quaker Parrot {Psittacus monachus), was furnished by Mr. Buxton 
to the Animal World. — "Five years ago I brought back from South 
America two small Green Paroquets, — these two were turned out about 
September, and early in October they began to build a nest on the 
top of a large vase, which stood in the open hall. Of course, according 
to their calculations the spring should have been well forward by 
October. They must have thought the winter unaccountably mild, and 
the spring and summer too disgustingly cold. 
"The nest was formed of silver-birch twigs, twined and matted 
together, making one solid mass. The tiny birds looked very graceful 
flying into the hall with a long sprig of birch trailing behind them. 
Once, when the nest was almost three feet high, the whole of it was 
