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the position of the nest being some four feet from the ground. A couple

of times the eggs fell out of the flimsy structure, so a piece of half-inch

wire netting was fixed on the site of the nest. The birds immediately

built on the wire and reared one young one. Later they laid again in

the same nest and reared one more. On each occasion only one egg was

laid. The diet provided (unaltered during the time the young were

being fed by their parents) is chopped apple, pear, and banana, and

bread and milk. Has anyone ever recorded that, in the female, the

feathers of the thigh and under tail coverts are spotted black, the same

parts being entirely white in the male ? This is certainly the case with

our pair, but I am not in a position to say whether the distinction is

constant.


Bartlett’s Bleeding-heart Pigeon (GaUicolumba luzonica ).—■

Several attempts were made at nesting, one egg being laid each time.

Two young successfully reared.


Mourning Dove (Zenaidura macroura carolinensis). Twelve reared.


Plumed Pigeon (Lophophaps plumifera ).—One reared.


Brush Bronze-winged Pigeon ( Phaps elegans ).—Three reared.


Bourke’s Grass Parrakeet (Neopsephotus hourkii). —-Eight reared.


Blue-winged Grass Parrakeet ( Neonanodes chrysostomus ).—

Four reared.


Elegant Grass Parrakeet (N. elegans ).— Four reared.


Scarlet-chested Grass Parrakeet (Neophema splendida ).—

Three reared. Unfortunately our best breeding hen died from some

unknown cause. In three seasons she reared nineteen young.


Alexandrine Parrot (Psittacula nipalensis ).—-Three reared.


Javan Parrot (.Psittacula alexandri). —-Four reared in three nests.

A fifth young one had to be destroyed owing to the fact that it had

a deformed foot. Is this a first record ?


Green Conure (Aratinga leucophthalmus). —One reared.


Hooded Parrakeet (Psephotus dissimilis). —Two reared.


Many-coloured Parrakeet (P. varius). —One reared. The cock

died when the chick was only a few days old and all the rearing was

therefore done by the hen, which was a very tame bird and not the type

one would expect to make a good parent.


Cuban Finch (Tiaris canora). —Two reared.



