Foreign Cage-Birds at Home 



and-white wings, which is not much imported. 

 This is as much a follower of man as the sparrow, 

 but a very much nicer bird, always well-behaved 

 and interesting, without being too obtrusively 

 tame. Of late years he has pushed his way 

 up into the Himalayas, into quite a temperate 

 climate, and he makes an excellent colonist when 

 introduced abroad. On the whole, he may be 

 taken as the most typical Indian bird, although 

 popular ideas give that place to the green parra- 

 keet, which, however, as I pointed out before, is 

 not so much in evidence everywhere. 



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