. Bird notes . a bush or creeper, andthough each year they had one or more young leave the nestthey never reached the age of independence—rains always soakedthe nest or drowned the young. This year they nested in abox, and in spite of the wet have succeeded; their second nestthey began in a rose busli, so I pulled it down and they haveagain gone to a box. GouLDiAN Finches (Poepliila goiildiae): We have twopairs of these—Black-headed, and at the moment both pairs haveyoung, four and six days old respectively; we have bred thesebirds to maturity on three previous years—indeed, one of thehens whi
. Bird notes . a bush or creeper, andthough each year they had one or more young leave the nestthey never reached the age of independence—rains always soakedthe nest or drowned the young. This year they nested in abox, and in spite of the wet have succeeded; their second nestthey began in a rose busli, so I pulled it down and they haveagain gone to a box. GouLDiAN Finches (Poepliila goiildiae): We have twopairs of these—Black-headed, and at the moment both pairs haveyoung, four and six days old respectively; we have bred thesebirds to maturity on three previous years—indeed, one of thehens which has young now we bred here last year. Pectoral Finches {Miinia pccturaJis): We recentlyacquired a pair of these; once before we had young up to tendays old, but it was too late in the year for complete males that we have had have all, when courting, had thesame habit of collecting all the small white stones they couldfmd in the aviary, for what purpose it is somewhat difficult to Q Qo ^. h-( ao Happenings in Our Aviaries. 165 imagine; our first knowledge of this was in 1914 when we foundsome dozen or more small white stones the size of a pea on thetop of an Avadavats nest. One wondered who the practicaljoker was, and often afterwards used to see the male pectoralcarrying similar stones about the aviary. We were unfortunate enough in the very early part ofthis year to lose our last hen Parrot Finch—one we had bredin 1919, and a very fine bird—otherwise we, or rather my wife,in my absence abroad, had bred one or more each year for fiveyears in succession—nice birds, easy to breed, but not easy tosex with certainty. A male Cordon Bleu {EstrUda phocnicotis) paired with ahen Cuban hlnch {Phonipara canora) this year, and had twonests, but the eggs have proved infertile. The rain and coldkilled the Cordon Bleu about a fortnight ago, so they wonthave another chance, but anyway one is not particularly fondof hybrids. We have a pair of birds we are not quit
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