. Bird notes . ecase as much as 4ft. from it. The male took no part in incubation and he did notfeed the female; he devoted himself entirely to his musicalstudies. Under date 3rd July, I have the following note: Spizas apparently feeding; if so, my date for On the 9th, I isaw the male removing foeces and thiswas the first time that I saw him take any interest in thenest; after this date he fed the young occasionally. ;0n the 12th, two young Spizas flew; they were brownon the crown and back, the Ujiper back having some well-defined striations; breast pale huffish; superciliary
. Bird notes . ecase as much as 4ft. from it. The male took no part in incubation and he did notfeed the female; he devoted himself entirely to his musicalstudies. Under date 3rd July, I have the following note: Spizas apparently feeding; if so, my date for On the 9th, I isaw the male removing foeces and thiswas the first time that I saw him take any interest in thenest; after this date he fed the young occasionally. ;0n the 12th, two young Spizas flew; they were brownon the crown and back, the Ujiper back having some well-defined striations; breast pale huffish; superciliary streak flew well. They soon commenced a partial moult,their backs becoming more ash-coloured and about the ^IstJuly they developed dark moustachial streaks, sweeping back-wards from the angle of the lower mandible—a singular mark-ing, which has no counterpart in the adult plumage (theadults have a spot of yellow at the angle of the beak). Thecheeks of the young were light brown and they had a few c. >^ Nesting of the Bickcissel. 273 faint striations of the same colour on the breast and this phase of pkimage they remained and, as they wereexactly alike, it was impossible to sex them. Towards theend of August I parted with the adults and one youngster toone of our members and I retained the other. Past experi-ence with Buntings bred in the aviary has taught me thatthe period during which they are being gradually broughton to hard seed is a critical one, and I was therefore carefulnot to let the young bird go until I was certain that it couldbe considered fully weaned, but I had to learn one morelesson. I placed the remaining young bird in a large flight-cage by itself, with mealworms, and other luxuries. Eesult:It refused all food and pined away. Moral: Do not over-look the mentality of a young bird, but bear in mind thatit probably feels the separation from Its family as acutelyas we, when small boys, felt being sent to our first school. On the 23rd of
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