. Bird notes . details of tl:c time of incubation, etc., as they had nested somari\ times without any result that I had given up examin-ing their nests. When I first noticed the young hybrid, itwas strong on the wing, and able to fend for itself. In sizeit wa~> nearly oqual to the mother, which it very closelyresembled, but the white patches on cheek and throat wereabsent. This bird lived some weeks, when it was killed bya cock Mealy Rosella. It proved on dissection to be a old hen again went to nest, and in August I found a,new-born young one on the floor of the aviary, but a care-
. Bird notes . details of tl:c time of incubation, etc., as they had nested somari\ times without any result that I had given up examin-ing their nests. When I first noticed the young hybrid, itwas strong on the wing, and able to fend for itself. In sizeit wa~> nearly oqual to the mother, which it very closelyresembled, but the white patches on cheek and throat wereabsent. This bird lived some weeks, when it was killed bya cock Mealy Rosella. It proved on dissection to be a old hen again went to nest, and in August I found a,new-born young one on the floor of the aviary, but a care-ful search failed to find any more in the coco-nut husksused as nests, and a day or two afterwards the hen sparrowwas also picked up dead; the victim of another avian Hun. The cock sparrow now turned his attention to a secondhen, that was in the aviary, and duly persuaded her \o takeon household (duties, with the result that, in the middle ofOctober a second hybrid left the nest, This bird was quite Bird Phutn \V. Shore Hull/.Nest and Kggs of Sikhim Siakin. Hybrid Breeding. 15 different in colour to the first bird, br^ing much more ruddyon the back; but for the fact that it was nearly twice asbig, it might easily have been mistaken for an adult commonhen Sparrow. I am hoping that it may meet witli no acci-dents and turn out to< be a male,, as it might then be arather pretty bird. Other curious matings here this season were acock Tovi, with a hen Ring-neck Parrakeet, Threeeggs were laid from this union, in one of my special nest-boxes (see figure) but all proved infertile. The cock Tovi,
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