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and sunflower seed, also raw unshelled rice, and good fruit (tlie 

 best is cherries, pears, or apples), with the addition of some 

 egg-bread moistened in water, or some hard biscuit ; service 

 berries are also eaten with eagerness, and are very wholesome. 

 Branches for gnawing must not be omitted, young shoots of the 

 pine being especially liked. If it be possible to obtain heads of 

 maize fresh from the garden (preferably with the grain still in a 

 milky state), nothing further can be needed for acclimatisation. 

 Their diseases are the same as those of other parrots ; but at 

 first they are apt to suffer from any change of temperature or 

 draughts, coughing, panting, discharge from the nose, and, con- 

 sequently, inflammation of the organs of breathing ; but these, 

 if treated properly, will pass over without danger. 



CHAP. XXXIX. — THE NEW GUINEA ECLECTUS OE 

 PAEROT. 



Paittacns Linnei, Ess. ; P. polychlorus, Scpl. aa male, 

 P. Linnei, Wgl. as female. 



Bed-sided Eclectus, or Red-sided Green Lory, male bird so-called 

 (Ger., Grilnedelpapagei, grosser grilner Edelpapagei, and, erro- 

 neously hy the dealers, Waclisschnahellori oder Wachsschnahel ; 

 Fr., Grand Perroquet vert, ou Lori Perruche d flancs rouges; 

 Dut., Groote groene Edelpapegaai) — Linnean Eclectus, 02* 

 Linnean Lory, female so-called (Ger., Linne's Edelpapagei ; 

 Fr., Perroquet de Linne ; Dut., Linne's Edelpapegaai) — Neio 

 Guinea Eclectus or Parrot (Fr., Perroquet de la Nouvelle 

 Guinee; Dut., New Guinea Edelpapegaai) — Description — 

 Habitat — Lnportation — Domestic Character. 



It is an extraordinary sight to see a pair of these large birds 

 sitting together and "' billing and cooing," for they are so 

 different in appearance, and those who have not studied the 

 matter can scarcely be persuaded to believe that they are mates ; 

 indeed, I may here casually remark that the wholesale dealers- 

 will even now hardly credit it. 



The male is grass-green, the upper and lower parts of 

 the body being alike ; the primaries and their coverts are 



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