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several young ones, on no occasion would they feed them. They were

always thrown out of the nest, and the parents started building

again.


Tambourine Doves (Tympanistria tympanistria) . Three pairs

of these doves nested here, and on five or six occasions hatched off

young, but unfortunately none were successfully reared. In every

case when the young were from ten to fourteen days old they tried

to leave the nest, and were killed in dropping from the nest to the

floor of the aviary shelter.


A hen Green Singing Finch, mated to a cock Alario Finch,

nested three times, and laid in all ten eggs. All were infertile.


Cape Canary (Serinus canicollis) . A pair of these birds built

a nest resembling a linnet’s nest in a box bush. Two eggs were laid.

One was broken, but the other one was hatched, and the young

left the nest at the end of May. Further attempts at nesting were

spoilt by other birds in the aviary destroying the nests.


Chinese Painted Quail (Excalfact or ia chinensis) . Although

no nests were made, several eggs were found in different places in

the aviary. We made a rough nest for them, but we could not

induce the birds to enter it and incubate the eggs we had placed

in it.


Queen Alexandra’s Parrakeet (Polytelis alexandrse). The

old pair laid five eggs by the 12th April, and three young were

hatched out by the 25th. One was found dead three days later,

and another one died when twelve days old. The third one was

reared, leaving the nest on the 5th June. The cock bird, which had

been removed during the incubation and rearing of the young, was

returned to the aviary. They nested again and four eggs were laid

by the 30th June. One young hatched out on the 14th July, two

eggs contained dead chicks, and the fourth egg was infertile. The

young one left the nest on the 20th August. It is a fine healthy

bird. Another pair in another aviary went to nest, laying six

eggs by the 25th April, and two young were hatched out by the 7th

May. Both young were found dead three days later, and the other

four eggs were infertile. The above pair were bred here in 1931.

These birds again laid six eggs by the 30th May, but all of these



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