. Bird notes . Greenfinch X SikVhim Siskin—the same hen Siskinreared two fine young ones this year with amale of her own species. Spice Finch x Bib Finch. Squamata X Californian Quail. Olivaceoiis X Golden Weaver. Necklace X Senegal Dove. Accounts of all these happenings have already ap-peared in previous numbers of From All Sources. The following interesting cutting from the Sydney Mail, were sentby J Hume, sume time ago, and have been overlooked.—Ed. Wiiru-iRONjiD Chat and Family: .—Walking along ourcreek some weeks ago, I saw the hen bird of the White-fronted Chatfly out of a furz
. Bird notes . Greenfinch X SikVhim Siskin—the same hen Siskinreared two fine young ones this year with amale of her own species. Spice Finch x Bib Finch. Squamata X Californian Quail. Olivaceoiis X Golden Weaver. Necklace X Senegal Dove. Accounts of all these happenings have already ap-peared in previous numbers of From All Sources. The following interesting cutting from the Sydney Mail, were sentby J Hume, sume time ago, and have been overlooked.—Ed. Wiiru-iRONjiD Chat and Family: .—Walking along ourcreek some weeks ago, I saw the hen bird of the White-fronted Chatfly out of a furze bush, and alighting on ihc ground at some distance,simulate a broken wing with much cleverness. Knowing by this worn-outruse that a nest must be near, I looked, and found it a few feet fromthe ground i n the golden-flowering I, * a deep, cup-shaped struc-ture, neatly woven of dry grasses, and smoitaly lined with fibres and wool. The Bay-winged Cowbird is not a parasitical species.—Ed, wHO Q 5. From All Sources. 17 In it were three pointed eggs, white with reddish-brown spots round thetop. Six days later, I found two tiny, naked birds, newly hatched in theircradle; the third egg had not come out. The parents hovered anxiously,above me, uttering their nasal tomg as I peeped into their week passed and the two nestlings had become a fluffy mass ofgrey down, and opened yellow-lined beaks at my approach, and two dayslater they had already brown wing feathers, white throats, and white-linedtails, and gazed at me with sharp, black eyes. On the following day, awarm, sunny one, the fledglings had left their nest, and were fluttering gaily,among red-berried svvce -briars, in company with numerous other chats N,ATi\r Hfns. Lancewood.—Periodically, and yet at no regulartimes, the HIack-taile i Native Hens {Microtnbonyx ventrulis) come sud-denly in swarms, appearing simultaneously in every creek and waterholeover hundreds of miles of country in the interi
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