15- Correspondence. 



of his owiKT when one niornintj, after jjrcctinjj him with " Hello, Joey," a 

 small voice replied. "" Hello, Joey." 



^\nd since that day he has picked u\) word after word, until now he 

 h.is quite an extensive vocabulary. The following- are some of his sayings : — 

 " Pretty boy," " Joey's naughty boy," " ()h. Joey, Joey." " What did you 

 say?" "Joey's a beauty boy," " Stoj) it," " What ;ire xou doing?" " See 

 what I've got," "Oh, Joey, you iiaii^^lity boy." lie also has .a most 



realistic sneeze, and since he has learned that, we have been trying to induce 

 him to sneeze and then say, " Poor Joey has a cold," but so far he absolutely 

 refuses to say the word " cold." He will sneeze quite nicel\' and say " Poor 



Joey has a " l)ut no more. I might say that his words are not indistinct 



or whistled, but are most distincll} spoken : so much so. in fact, that when 

 he calls the dog's name, " Dilly," as he docs sometimes, even the dog 

 turns round ! 



Of course, I know that cases of these birds saying a few words are 

 rot unknown, but I beheve they are rather rare : in fact I have seen it stated 

 somewhere that the proportion is not more than one in five hundred, but I 

 think myself that they all have the power to speak in some degree, and that 

 whether they use it or not is merely ;i question of the way in which they are 

 kept. I have given two others to friends this year, and already they Ijoth 

 say " Poor Joey " quite distinctly. 

 Alfreton; September 14th, 1923. CYRH. P.EST. 



Editorial. 



CuRREXT Nksti.xg .XoTics. — The tail-end of the season has 

 been more fruitful in results than the earlier part of same; the 

 followini^- are some of the more notable happenings in our 

 members' aviaries, besides those a])pearing" elsewhere as 

 articles : 



Mr. Cyril Best. Alfreton, reports the successful rearing 

 of two yotmg" Stanley Parrakeets. from a pair of this species 

 procured from the Marquis of Tavistock in igji. 



Mons. A. Decou.x, France, has liad the good fortune to 

 breed two Wliite-capped Tanagers (Stcplianof horns Jeucoceph- 

 alus) — the first time this species has ever been bred in captivity, 

 we think — -an illustrated article will appear in our next issue. 



Air. 11. E. Bright, Woolton, Liverpool, has several 

 young hyl)rids, l^red from a male Indigo Burning {Cyanospicn 

 c:aHca) mated to ;i hen Nonpareil ('('". ciris). now fully fending 

 foT themselves. 



Also an Indigo Bunting paired \\ith a hen Rainbow 



