. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . many other <xnintries. The nest in a wdd state is a large splierieal struc-ture placed in trees, thorny bushes, or creepers. It is With white birds, on the other hand, brooding conldalways be accomplished because (probably for centuries)they have been bred in boxes. I failed to breed JavaSparrows until I cros.^ed a wild cock bird with a whitehen. The oflsprirg from these birds varied alittle, some Iwing pure greys like their father, grey and white in all degrees. Since that time Ihave bred nearly every year, and have selected pairsfrom m
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . many other <xnintries. The nest in a wdd state is a large splierieal struc-ture placed in trees, thorny bushes, or creepers. It is With white birds, on the other hand, brooding conldalways be accomplished because (probably for centuries)they have been bred in boxes. I failed to breed JavaSparrows until I cros.^ed a wild cock bird with a whitehen. The oflsprirg from these birds varied alittle, some Iwing pure greys like their father, grey and white in all degrees. Since that time Ihave bred nearly every year, and have selected pairsfrom my stock with which other aviculturists havebred successfully. The white bUxxl, and the fact thatthe young are born and brought up in a ncH-box, setmat oiice to ensure a similar form <]f nidifiiation in thesehome-bred birds. In spite of the white blood which they inherit, Ibelieve that sele<ted greys will always throw greys;but the purest white stock will iUso sometimes throwpure greys; indeed, the brother of my inire white bird. Java Sparrows. formed of grasses, and has the entrance hole in to eight white eggs are deposited. The song of this bird is always rather musical, includ-ing several soft little trills. There is a great deal ofdifference between that of the wild grey type and ofthe white domesticated form developed by the Chinese. Owing to the immense mischief which this speciesdoes to the rice crops it is also known by the names ofRice-bird and Iaddy-tiird. Wherever it has been intro-duced it has increased and become a nuisance, just asour English Sparrow has done. Not that the Rice-birdis a Sparrow; it is only so called because it is thefamiliar bird of the streets and the grain fields in theEast. Although it is possible to purchase newly-importedgrey birds at a ridiculously low price, it is of littleuse to attempt to breed with these, excepting in anetted-in garden, where natural nesting sites to 1870 it appears not to have been bred ev
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