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a greenhouse when it was freezing or raining too hard. He also kept in

the same way a hen Swallow during the winter 1934-5. In the following

spring the pair of Swallows built a nest of mud (which their master

provided for them) against the wall of an aviary 25 feet by 12 feet by

6 feet, using a small wooden platform intended for the Eock Martin

to roost on at night. Five young were hatched, the first two died

because their birth was not noticed and no proper food was supplied ;

the next three were very easily reared by the parents on ants’ eggs.

In the autumn the three young birds and the mother were let out, the

male and the female Eock Martin being kept in the aviary as M. Plocq

is trying this year to breed hybrids between the two species.



ORNAMENTAL PHEASANT SOCIETY’S NOTES


By Miss J. M. Grant-Ives


Many members of the O.P.S. have urged the Committee to publish

a booklet or journal, and so the Committee have acquiesced. The first

publication will take place about the middle of May. This will be the

first Pheasant journal ever issued, at least we think so, so a few words

as to the contents will not be out of place. The main features will be

articles by world famous aviculturists such as J. Delacour, J. Stefani,

P. Schmidt, Leland Smith, E. G. Bradshaw, Y. Malisoux, and

Scotland, Wales, and Ireland will also be represented ; and last, but

not least, your worthy Editor, Miss E. Chawner. One of the oldest

fanciers in Great Britain will also contribute as well as the youngest.

A short fairy tale, which will deal with Pheasants in their native habitat,

will be included. There will be other topical articles, and the journal

will be liberally supplied with short pithy hints on rearing Pheasants

and on matters relating to the O.P.S., and finally a full list of our

members and their addresses.


Our frontispiece will be ambitious and costly. It is a reproduction of

a magnificent painting of an Amherst cock, painted by one of our

members, Miss Cooper. It depicts an adult cock standing on a bough

overlooking clear water. The cock, observing its reflection in the



