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p. 22. Add: No. 105, i. Red-crested Finch, C. cristatus (Gm.).


Although not uncommonly imported, the first breeding

success seems to have been obtained as recently as 1926,

when Decoux in France reared seven young from three nests

built by four-year-old parents. See A.M., 1927, 22 and

UOiseau, 1927, 9. It has been suggested that my record

of the Red-Crowned Finch (No. 106) really refers to the

Red-crested, but I think that the record as given by Russ

and Neunzig is sufficiently convincing, and although now

hardly ever seen in captivity, there is no doubt that some

were imported in the eighties.


p. 23. Add : No. 108, i. Black-cheeked Cardinal, P. nigrigenis

(Lafr.). First breeder, Decoux in France in 1924 ; see

UOiseau , 1925).


(To be continued.)



A SAD STORY OF COCKATIELS


By A. C. Furner


If our Editor can find room for this tale of woe in our Magazine

I should be grateful, as I am anxious to hear if any other member of

our Society has experienced the trouble which I am having with my

Cockatiels. My dates are uncertain, but facts only too certain.


I purchased my first pair of Cockatiels about three years ago,,

and kept them in an aviary with my Budgerigars. Their nest-box

was a rectangular box about 14 by 8 by 8 inches with concave

bottom to receive the eggs. The birds went to nest about six months

after purchase and as soon as the eggs were laid the cock bird became

a fiend, chasing the Budgerie from their nests and generally causing

havoc. I had to take them out and the opportunity of young Cockatiels

vanished for the first time.


I then divided the aviary into two sections with netting partition,,

and the birds went to nest again, and about a fortnight later eggs were

laid and we were going strong again when, due to dry weather after



