A Seeker after Bird Marts. iy\ 



explained that they hked to be loose when he was still. Eacli 

 beak was as long as a candle box! and they were being Lrotied 

 about in a minute cage, at the bottom of a stack of eight oi 

 ten other cages. Some instinct prompted me not to buy these, 

 which was lucky, as 1 should have had to carry them off on some 

 months of travelling, which fate decreed immediately after, and 

 they look so immobile, and I feel sure eat vast amounts of 

 possibly tmattainable fruits. 



My husband saw these Hornbills several times in Sumatra, 

 being carried like a parcel in a small sling of grass maiLUig with 

 a vast beak sticking out on one side, and tiny wedge of tail on 

 the other, but with what motive he never found out ; was it for 

 ornament? Surely not for food! ! Instead of the Hornbids 

 1 bought a big wdiistling olive green bird, about the size of a 

 Ivfissel Thrush, which I since found was a Bulbul {Tracnycomus 

 ochroeepliaius), and 1 heard it wild several times in Sumatra; 

 its note is so extraordinary, with a thrilling, penetrating, but 

 beautiful tone, quite overpowering in a room, and 1 hear that 

 the full song is gorgeous. They command big prices as cage 

 birds in Java and Singapore. I wonder if this bird comes on 

 to the English market at all ? They w^ould be very lovely to 

 li-.ten to in a big aviary. Mine was distressingly wild until I 

 put him in with my job lot of jungly birds, when he calmed 

 down at once. 



Would not some of my fellow-members kindly write of 

 tpcir adventures and successes during remote bird shop explora- 

 tion ? It would be so interestinti'. 



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Records of Birds which have Bred in Captivity. 



By Dr. E. Hopkinson, U.S.O., M.A., M.B., F,Z.S., etc. 



Some years back I compiled a Hst of the records of birds 

 which have been bred in captivity; this appeared in Bird Notes 

 in 1918 and 1919. 



Here I have arranged the PASSERIFORMES records in 

 lWO lists to supply the information in a shorter and more con- 

 venient form, by leaving the references out, as for those 

 interested they are available in the original account. 



