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    THE tASMANiAN NATURAlist.foul" or five miles down the water wasseen to be covered with feathn's.which Paocific gulls had torn frOII, a C.YP n,Wl:;hing to capture a l i t L ~ c 'Wgnet, oneof a PHty of three or I.Jur swimminghi front of the boat, was singlec\ out,ailll as i t was l'Ilpidly gaineo upon, tb.ubird was soon lifted from the water - ~ n Jplaced in the boat. On lJP,i:lg' broughtto Hoklrt it became eXJCeildinglYl tame,and eviucntly enjoyed life, in jpss thanfh'c weeks ga'lning in weig1lt from libIOoz. to over 41h. When callght it8upposet! to be about four weeks o'td,an d a photo of it (reproullcet! in theillustrated section) was ~ a k ( ; n a\ ce!,aftr. The billsano eyes of young [wansore bbek, but change to ret! htnI. When

    the feathers are plucked from a blackswan i t tllen looks snowy white,the o:1own not being attached to thefeathers but separate. With the youngcapture'cl bird it was noticed that thenest down with which many youngoirdsare 1C0vered on hatcMng from the shdlt!id no t give place to feathers, which Istiw general rule, but to the true down,ant! the feathers appear later. This downwas not white, but a fawn colour. Wearrived at Kelve(\Jn again I'n rioayafternoon with some of the swans. _nefolio wing day I started on the returnto Hou:ut, after having witilessed int hose large flocks of m a g n i f i l ~ e n t bi:,.1s oneof th e finest s'lghts of its Kind, and longmay it remain.

    1:Jisf of :1Ilembers.*Anthol1v E :-;; lWzabeth an d Ihvpvstre;t's, H o b ~ r t . '*Atkins, C. J . Audleysheet, Hobad.*Atkins, W. N., ~ I o o n a h .Atkinson, R. H., Ft'iends' High S c h o o ~Hohad.

    BaylltoJl, H. J., Bo,t Vl,;ta-roatl. NorthHobart.*Beattie, J. W., Elizahethstreet, Hobaort.Beedham,11iss, vV'arwicks:tr.eet, Hobart.Bcedh,tlll, Lo, Walwick-street, Hobart."'Bell, 11iss, Lindisfarne."'Black, R. A., Dept. Agriculture, Hobart.Boxall. J., clo 1lessrs. Bn'gess P, os.,Hob:trt. -*Brpnt, A. K, A u ~ t i n " ; Ferry.HHH\' l le 11 , F. L.. Stoke,trpet, Hob:U't."'Hutler, A. L., 11ul'ray-street, l Iok. t.Cato. \Y. C . I.'loUds D ~ p t . , D l\eystreet.Ch"]llllell, H. C. D . Swanf;treet. Hob:ll't."'{,ll'mes, S . Le"lie Hou,.;('. Ne,,' Town.*Colbollrn, H.. ., ('oullcil of .\gl'icult:r-e,Hobmt."'Conlon, A., COllncil of Agriculture,

    Hob'll't."'Cook, J. V .. D:lln:1.iustrcpt, Hobart.Crookall, W., Smithstreet, Hoba.rt.

    D'EllHlen, F.ank, 1ft. Stuart, Hohart.D'Emden, Thos., Mt. Stuart, Hobart.Dove, H. Stuart, DeYOllport West.Duthoit, N., Bellerive.

    *EII!ott, O. H., H i g h - ~ I . e e t , Hohat"t.*Elhott, E. A., High-street, Hobal't.*Gibson, Dr. G., Macquariestreet, Hobart

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    "'Ha.rcourt, Alec., rystreet, Hobart.Hardcastle, :cr'. C., 1Iltcquariestreet.,Hobart.*Harrison, M. \V., Glenrr:chy.Ha'vey, R. C., ) L 1 c q u a ~ i e s t r e e t , Hobarl.

    Irvine, }liss, Friends' High School,Hobart.Johnson, J. A., Training 'College, Hobart.*Johnston, R. 111., LlS.O., GovernmentStatistician, Hobart.Ke.rmode, M i ~ s D., "Oorol1

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    THE TASMANIAN NATURALIST.*Penny, G. C., Lands Dept., Hobart.Pies se, 'K L., BaY'I'o,td, Hobart."Philp. J. E., Battery Point, Hobart.Pitfield, L., Glebe Town, Hobart.*Pitman, C. A., Landi! Dept., Hobart.

    ""Pitman, C. B., ,Lands Dept., Hobart.*Pottenge,l', H. Lo, 265 Dav'eY'str-eet,Hobart.Pretyman, E. H., Sitll'ily ,Bay, Hobart.*Rpid, A. R., LiIerpool,treet, Hobiut.Roberts, M,s. H. 1.., Beallmaris, BatteryPoint, Hobart.Robey, }fiss, Fed'Talstreet, Hobart."Rod way, L., Ylacquariestreet, Hobad.Simpson, T. C. Holebrook Place, Hobart."*8im80n, Aug., High-st,reet, Launceston.

    "'Smith, Dr. G., London."'Smith, J. E., Friends' High School,Hobart.Stephens, A. ~ \ . , Lansdowne Crescent,'Hobart.Tarleton, J. W., Sandy Bay, Hobart.Tlib." I t , jun., :\Iurraystreet, Hobart.Walpole, S., Union Bank, Hobad.WalkE(', B. Rtndy Bay, Hobart.*Watchorn . A .0., Battel:y Point, Hobart.Wa.l'dman, J., Botanic Gardens, Hobart.Watson, H., Sandy Bay, Hobart.*vYhite, .\., IBroomhill, Mangalore.Woolley, C. E., Lindi,.sfarne. _Wright, C., Trinity Hill State School,Hobart.

    t96e :J3reeding J-{abits of:J3ronzewing ~ i g e o n sBy MARY G. RDBERTS, M.A.S.E., M.A.D.U.

    (The bird", inre de,alt with are our oommon hronz,ewing (lPhaps chalcoptera)and) ,th:e crelSlted br.mwewinlg of Ne wSou.th Wale" (Dcyphaps lophotes).)Jn my aviaries, whn'e these y a r i e t i c ~iuv,e been kept ,se'as,on af,ter ,s;ea,son underrxa.ctly ,the same 'coonditiol1S, I find thetime of year in w h i ( i . ~ they begin tolJUilll, and the period nesting -last,;,vdry consid,erably; influenced, no d o u b ~ ,by ,the severity ,or 'obherwise of weathercondition:;,. 'E1or inJSltance, in 1904 they bothbegan t,o lay in July and! .A:ugust, an dooth s'alt five times a,nd earried on hreeding O'peroa,tjoILs until ,quite the end of

    Ma rcll. J,t is alrrrO's,t needLesls ,to say thatall the eggs were nll't haotd .ed, nor al lthe young I-ea red; in one inls,tance a pairof ,QUI' .own bronzewing;s fell from tlhenest and d!ied when a few days .old, andd.rrot.her time one egg was laid and forgak"m. Some uuto'W,ard circumst,ance011&0 befell thecre.s'ted variety, andl, Lrammy eXlperi,ence, I c.onclude tha,t threetimes n,e,st'ing in one season would be thenormal .or outsiue number. In ,the IollO'wiuO' veal' (l'!)05) O'perations commenced,tiIJ e':'a;lie'r, /lnd, to my ,surprise, O'n JuneZi I. found! egg.s in the neist .of tbe NewSoUtil Wales emst'ed, and! ,twO' day:;, laterin that of our common brO'nze-wing. Therea ~ ' e many disappointments in avicultn:e,the

    c ~ ' e s t ' e d bronze wings deserted the nestowing ItO being disturbed.dluri.ng ,sonie al tenvtion:;, -to the aviary, and ,the Y'0ung ofour bTonzewings hatched out only to fallvict.ims ,too 'U sudden and ,severe ehange oftempera,ture. The hen nested again atth'e end! of AUgUSit, but on: S e ~ t e m b e r ,l6heavy fall 'ofS'now wa.s ,responsible for(11 )

    Ll1e l . ~ a t h of one squab; next morning theother died" and ,the foUDwing momingthe mo,tller-a matter of keen regret tome, as during her ,short aruCb iruterClSltinglife iHdJ engraf.ted very much pleal:lureintO' mine. The last .se'a"O'.n (1906) wa"mnlb later ,than usual, .owing ,to thefrequent. andJ intermittent OIInowstormswhi,:h fell upon the mountain up ito thebeg:nning of Decembe.r. The bird.s ,show-2d HO sign of ne,sting until October, andit was X ovember befO'I1e the first 'COlmmonbl'onz{'wing Wia3 ,ha,tched; It,hey were notonly' later ill! hegi.nning, but earlier inleaving .O'ff, .and by t l l ~ e n d ,of Nlovem'bect h i . . ~ y!tl'ie,ty had lfinished, ,the result beingtw'O young frO'm the 'fiI1st nesting, andom, frO'm the s'econd,; .the cres,ted varietylud: be'gu.IlJ somewha,t earlie.r. I t ha,,,, b&..'ni t gl'ea,t pl'ea.sn.re t'o me watching tl'Je nesli;!ng O'pera-tioILs,of ,truese two -varietiesbeing carried on s,imultaneously, aIUlIoucrhdenizen;! of d'iffe'l'Cll't states. In 5pewk.ing to cOll'ntry re,side.nts, ,they invm'ialilytell me that Ghrisltm!LS is the he.st time't'oobtain yO'ung b i ~ d ' 9 , buJt I 'fail till' a'gree)YitllL them, a,s the ra,et" which J Ihaye

    g i y ~ ' n pl'oYe the oppo.site. They mayp l ' l ) h a h l ~ - ,",ee more birdl, about duringt in t tim2, as, doubtle,ss eiUl3r foOl' worklH' plp .. sure ithey ram:ble in th e hushll1uch more frequently in ,summer tha