I had no opportunity to find out how long incubation takes but from questioning natives I got replies that indicated between 14 and 21 days and a few said longer, but such information was too undecided and uncertain to place any reliance on. I never saw young being fed in the nest, but I once caught a fleeting sight of an adult feeding a flying young one. The adult when first seen appeared to be shelling a seed or berry, then appeared to place its head alongside the youngster and pass the shelled seed to it sideways out of the beak. The bird was seen to swallow but just then the adult sighted observer, gave the alarm and both birds departed in haste. From what I saw, I believe in most cases only one parent feeds the young and though 3 may be hatched out, seldom more than 2 survive and often only one survives. What natives told me seemed to bear this out and numbers mentioned having found four young hatched, but seldom after the first week, were more than 2 alive. Natives also spoke of only one bird feeding the young or entering the nesting hollow. Young birds are fed by adults on paw paw and minced up seed kernels. In captivity young can be kept alive and well entirely on paw paw as long as the seeds of the fruit are left in so it is evidently a suitable diet. After leaving the nest they quickly learn to feed themselves and can fend for themselves at an early age and very quickly adopt the habits of adults though for a little time they are noisier and not so wary and careful but appear to inherit a great shyness right from the start of life.