. Bird notes . cause of death of the two birthsent was fatty degeneration of the heart and liver. In-breeding is likely:o predi:;pose birds to French moult. Hrccling boxes, hu^ks. creosoted at least once a year, even if not renewed. Answered by /705/:—Jamis \callaiid ; .Vliss Sturton Johnson. H <;ray. The History of the Budgerigar. Ekkata : Re page 131, June i;sue. In this instalment the foot-note has got mixed up with the , making it read incoherently. We apologise for the error, a!sj for the irrcguar manner In whichthe article was broken up into instalment
. Bird notes . cause of death of the two birthsent was fatty degeneration of the heart and liver. In-breeding is likely:o predi:;pose birds to French moult. Hrccling boxes, hu^ks. creosoted at least once a year, even if not renewed. Answered by /705/:—Jamis \callaiid ; .Vliss Sturton Johnson. H <;ray. The History of the Budgerigar. Ekkata : Re page 131, June i;sue. In this instalment the foot-note has got mixed up with the , making it read incoherently. We apologise for the error, a!sj for the irrcguar manner In whichthe article was broken up into instalments. We are only partly to hiani2,OUT hands were forced, mostly by shortness of copy an 1 not being ablealways to wait for the mail bringing Dr. Hopkins ins The time? aso are very diffi;ut for the printers, and it is impossible toavoid rushing things at times and in this way errors creep in. W^e willreprint the portion referred to in a later i:sue, so as to clear up theincoherence.—Ed. Bird Photo W. Shore Baity. Red-coUared Whydah Feeding Young on Nest. All rig/ify reserved. October, 11)16. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB The Breeding of a Hybrid Crimson-crownedWeaver X Red-collared Whydah. By W. Shore Baily. Last vSeptcmber I was able to send you an account ofthe rearing of two Red-collared Whydahs in one of myaviaries. This year in the same enclosure I have succeededin rearing a young hybrid from a Crimson-crowned Weavercock, and my old Red-collared Whydah hen. The little hybridshould make a very handsome bird if it lives to obtain fullbreeding plumage, which I hope that it nxaydo. It was the first week in May and in rather cold weather,.that I turned into the aviary two cock Crimson CrownedWeavers, an Orange Weaver cock. Red-shouldered WhydahCock, and my young Red-collared Whydah- cock, and withthem hens Red-collared and Red-shouldered Whydahs andCrimson-crowned Weaver. The other occupants of the aviarywere pairs of Yellow \\eav:rs, Bro
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