Godfrey Davis—Breeding ike Striated Finch or White-hacked Munia 41



1 Baya Weaver ( Ploceus hay a),


1 Paradise Whydah (Steganura paradisea).


2 Lark Sparrows ( Chondestes grammacus).


1 White-crowned Sparrow ( Zonotrichia leucophrys).


1 White-throated Sparrow ( Z. albicollis).


1 Andean White-throat Sparrow ( Z. pileata).


4 Zebra Finches ( Toeniopygia castanotis).


2 Strawberry Finches (Sporceginthus amandava ).


2 Green Singing Finches ( Serinus flaviventris).


1 South American Silky Cowbird ( Molothrus bonariensis).


1 Green Hunting Crow or Cissa ( Cissa chinensis).


2 Mexican Parrotlets ( Forpus cyanopygia).


1 Spix Macaw ( Cyanopsittacus spixi). Am trying Mr. Hasting’s remedy

for a mild case of feather-plucking.


1 Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo ( Kakatoe sulphurea).


1 Sora Rail (Porzana Carolina).


1 Virginia Rail ( Rallus virginianus ).


1 Yellow Rail ( Goturnicop noreboracensis).


1 Turnstone ( Arenaria interpres).


3 Black-necked Stilts (Himantopas mexicanus).


2 Ruffs ( Philomachus pugnax).



BREEDING THE STRIATED FINCH OR

WHITE-BACKED MUNIA (Uroloncha striata)


IN INDIA


By Godfrey Davis


I am at present debarred by circumstances from having aviaries,

either movable or fixed ; and I have come across few cages which I

have really liked ; one was a triple breeding cage of French manu¬

facture which I bought in Guernsey and in which I bred the little

Red Avadavat and then, as the cage was made for Canaries, I had

to make two doors at the end on which to hang the nesting-boxes.

But these French cages, nice as they were, were not made to hang

nesting-boxes on nor to be moved in and out from the verandah to

the garden, for I believe in keeping birds as far as possible in the open

air, and that means in India only in the morning and evening sun.

So I thought I would design a cage of wood and wire netting because

it is another of my ideas that cages must be cheap if the little ornamental

Finches are to be domesticated like the Canary. As a matter of fact

the cage when made was not cheap, but that was because it was made

by a Sikh carpenter out of teak wood, with joints as skilfully and



