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INDEX, 



Finsch's, Dr. Otto, description of 

 Small-billed parrakeets, 229 



Monograph by, 5 



On talent of Grey parrots, 84 

 Fischer, Dr., on the Grey parrot, 



82 

 Fits, epileptic, 65, Q& 

 Flat-tailed parrakeets : 



Distinguished from other 

 parrakeets, 237 



Food, 31, 32, 238, 239 



Hardinees, 238 



Importation, 233 



In freedom, 237, 238 



Masked, 2^5, 240 



Named by Vigors, 5, 237 



Natural history, 237, 238 



Physical characteristics, 237 



Popularity, 237 



Eed Shining, 243-245 



Eose Hill, 240-243 



Size, 237 



Talents, 239 



Treatment in captivity, 238, 

 239 



Utilised as food, 238 



(See also under respective 

 headings) 

 Flatulency. 57 

 Floor of cage, 20, 23 

 Fluck on food for lories and lori- 

 keets, 165 

 Fog, exposure to, to be avoided, 



47 

 Food of Amazon parrots, 95, 97 



Birds in captivity, 29 



Black-bonnet lory, 170 



Blue-breasted lory, 178 



Blue-crowned conure, 216 



Blue Mountain lory, 181 



Bolborrhynchi, 225 



Broad-tailed lories, 165, 168 



Brown-throated conure, 223 



Brush-tongued parrots, 165 



Cactus conure, 223 



Ceram lory, 174 



Cockatoos, 141 



Ducorps' cockatoo, 152 



Eclecti, 127-129 



Flat-tailed parrakeets, 238, 

 239 



Food of GoJdeu-crowned conure, 220 

 Great Black cockatoo, 159 

 Greater Vaza parrot, 92 

 Grey parrot, 88-90 

 Hawk-headed ptirrot, 127 

 Long-winged parrots, 122 

 Lories and lorikeets, 164-166 

 Macaws, 187, IBS 

 Noble parrots, 127-129 

 Palteornithina3, 199 

 Pioninte, 122 

 Eed lory, 176 



Eose Hill parrakeet, 242, 243 

 Senegal parrot, 123 

 Sharp-tailed lories, 179 

 Slender-billed cockatoo, 155. 



156 

 Timneh parrot, 90, 91 

 Undulated grass parrakeet, 



250, 251, 253 

 Yellow-cheeked conure, 223 

 Foods -. 



Almonds, sweet, 30 

 Ant-grubs, 32 

 Apples, 29 

 Bananas, 30, 32 

 Berries to be avoided, 30 

 Bitter almonds poisonous, 30 

 Brazilian earth nut?, 30 

 Bread, 33 



And butter, 30 

 Canary seed, 32 

 Carrots injurious, 30 

 Changing, 14 

 Cherries, 29 

 Chestnuts, sweet, to be 



avoided, 30 

 Coffee, 34 

 Condition of, 33 

 Corn, 31 

 Dates, 30 



Deleterious kinds, 30 

 DuUtz's, Mr. C, remarks on, 



30 

 Fat, 30 

 Figs, 30 



Fruit, 29, 31, 32 

 Grapes, 29 

 Green, 30-32 

 Hazel nuts, 30 

 Hemp, 31 



