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the top end. The nest was thickly lined with dried grass and feathers.

When feeling in the nest on 16th June, it was found to contain three

eggs, the colour of which was pale blue, heavily speckled with reddish-

brown spots. Two young were hatched out on 25th June, one of which

disappeared five days later. The third egg was removed and found

to be infertile. The surviving young one left the nest on 12th July,

when he was almost as big as his parents. The colour of the young

bird is : Head, back wings, and tail, brownish-green, under parts pale

yellow, beak and feet, pale grey. The old birds had access to insec¬

tivorous food, stock food, mixed fruit, and mixed seed, but it is not

known what the young one was reared on with the exception of meal¬

worms which they were always looking for. The young one is now

(6th August) quite independent of its parents, who are at present

bringing up one or two more young ones. This bird has never before

been bred in captivity.



ROLLULUS ROULROUL AND OTHER BIRDS


By H. A. Fooks


As no books that I have access to have described the young of the

Green Wood Quail (Rollulus roulroul), perhaps even a sketchy description

may be of information. The display of the parent birds consisted of

passing each other twigs, leaves, and various grasses, which they threw

in the air or over their backs. The cock every now and again pressing

his whole body, from the tip of his bill to his tail, to the ground and

emitting a staccato chuckling. His beak was wide open at the time, dis¬

playing to the full the crimson gape. The hen was last seen on the

20th May, and did not appear again till the 7th June. During this time

she was fed by the cock, as she was never seen till she appeared again

with three chicks, dark rufous in colour, the back and head being almost

dark brown ; their size, if anything, smaller than a bantam chick.

Upon their wings becoming fully feathered a small creamy spot

appeared on the tip of each of the wing covert feathers. Apart from

this there seemed to be no difference in their original colouring. The

legs were grey and eyes reddish brown. The peculiar bristles on their



