. Bird notes . o success-fully reared from a male Necklace mated with a SenegalTuitle Dove. The hybrids are very pretty birds, favouringthe Senegal in size and colour, but having a spotted collarlike the Necklace; the spots, however, are black and bronze in-stead of black and white as with the latter bird. I exhibitedone of them at the recent Holborn Show. IINCHKS: .Among these the Zebra Iinches were themost prolilic, one pair rearing fourteen young (jnes, andstrange to say all the nests were open cup-shaped ones {videplate), being constructed either ui boxes or shrubs; thusniiit(C-riiilly dif

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. Bird notes . o success-fully reared from a male Necklace mated with a SenegalTuitle Dove. The hybrids are very pretty birds, favouringthe Senegal in size and colour, but having a spotted collarlike the Necklace; the spots, however, are black and bronze in-stead of black and white as with the latter bird. I exhibitedone of them at the recent Holborn Show. IINCHKS: .Among these the Zebra Iinches were themost prolilic, one pair rearing fourteen young (jnes, andstrange to say all the nests were open cup-shaped ones {videplate), being constructed either ui boxes or shrubs; thusniiit(C-riiilly differing from the domed nests constructed in aviaries (The domied nest is typical of the species-Ed.]. Late in October at least four pairs of these youngl>ird^■ were incubating at the same time, and all in open cup-shaped nests. Chi( ks were hat( hed, but the bad weather inNovember killed them alll. The story of my success with Black Seed-fniches has .54 Season 1915 /// Bayers House Zebra Fincli Incubatin;: ■ „,„ „ , ..., . ,ij^,}

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