254 I5IRDS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. 



of cold, but Avill live for years in tlie house on canary seed 

 and millet. 



Ro.sY, or Peich-Faced Lovebird. — This species is a 

 little larger than the last, to which it bears a general re- 

 semblance, but the mask is of a pinky red, and the white 

 bill has a greenish shade on the upper mandible ; the tail, 

 as in the case of the last, is marked with alternate bands of 

 red, black and yellow ; the rump is bluish. 



Both this species and the last line their nest-holes with 

 fragments of bark, which they carry in fixed between the 

 long upper tail coverts. 



The rosy-faced lovebird breeds freely in confinement, and 

 should be fed and treated like the last. 



Praslin Parrot. — Tliis little brownish black ])arrot 

 bears a strong resemblance, except as regards size, to the 

 Vasa parrots of Madagascar; it has a whitish beak, and a 

 rather long, broad tail. It is found, but sparsely, in 

 Zanzibar. 



Grey Parrot. — This familiar bird is too well known 

 to need description ; it inhabits all the Gold Coast, and is 

 plentiful in and around Lagos. Unfortunately, most of 

 those imported into Europe die from septic fever, to which 

 they appear to be very liable. 



TiMNEH Parrot. — This bird would appear to be a local 

 variety merely of the last, from which it differs chiefly in 

 its darker colour, both of body, feathers, and tail, the last 

 l)eing of a dull reddish brown colour. It comss from the 

 hinterland of the Gold Coast, but is seldom imported. 



Brown-Necked Parrot. — This parrot bears a good deal 

 of resemblance to the Senegal parrot, but is larger and has 

 a bigger bill. Head black, neck brownish black, and the 

 remainder of the plumage olivaceous green, darker above 

 than below. It inhabits the country from Senegambia, to 

 the Gaboon, and is seldom im}iorted. 



