128 Alfred Ezra—Nesting Notes from Foxwarren Pan'k in 1932


nested under some pampas grass and the first egg was laid on 29th May.

Ten eggs in all were laid. As the hen would not sit the eggs were put

under a Silky hen on 21st June. Seven young were hatched. On

23rd June another hen was found incubating eight eggs under some

ivy. She gave up incubating these eggs and these were also put under

a Silky hen on the 29th. Four young hatched out by 16th July.

One of these was drowned. Ten young were fully reared.


Swinhoes Pheasant-tailed Pigeon (Macropygia swinhoei). Two

pairs of these birds have laid numerous eggs, but only two young

were reared. Most of the eggs were accidentally broken.


Renauld’s Ground Cuckoo ( Carpococcyx renauldi). One nest

was made inside the aviary shelter in a basket about 10 feet from the

ground. The nest was made of twigs, grass, leaves, and feathers.

Three eggs were laid by 7th May, two of which were fertile. Chicks

partly formed. Hen did not incubate very well. By 9th June three

more eggs were laid, all of which were infertile. Four more eggs were

laid by 9th July. Two of these eggs were fertile but chicks only partly

formed. I hope to turn these birds out in my big animal enclosure

this summer, and hope for success.


Fytche’s Bamboo Partridge ( Bambusicola fytchii). Nine young

were hatched, but only two of these were successfully reared. Already

reported in the December number of the Magazine, 1932.


African Wattled Plover (Lobivanellus lateralis). Nest made on

gravelled pathway in one of the large aviaries with only a few stones

heaped up. Laid four eggs in April, two of which were broken and

the other two were infertile. A second nest was made on the turf

in the small flight of the aviary, again using a few stones and some mud.

Four eggs were laid. Two young were hatched out but died almost at

once. One egg was broken and the fourth egg contained a dead chick.


Sulphury Seed-eater ( Serinus sulphuratus). Built a nest,

resembling that of a Chaffinch, in some ivy in May. Four eggs were

laid. Two young were reared.


Purple-headed Starling ( Lamprocolius auratus). One pair

built a nest in a big oblong nest-box in the flight of the aviary. Four

eggs laid by the 8th June. Three young hatched by 25th June. Parents

fed well for twelve days, but on examining the nest on 8th July all



