whom I wrote some 5'ears ago, I should co nsider it 

 impossible to have a more interesting and lovable pet 

 than my Senegal. C L. Collier. 



Of all the different Parrots of various families 

 and species which I have possessed, from the initial 

 Ring-necked Parrakeet in 1876 to the numerous, and 

 in many cases often changing examples in later years, 

 the Senegal so far appeals the most strongly to such 

 measure of affection as I am capable of shewing. 

 Indeed I am bound to say that I feel a good deal of 

 gratitude to Miss Collier's charming little pet, not 

 only for his kind reception of me when I saw him at 

 the Crystal Palace Show of 1903, but also for that 

 meeting having been the direct cause of my now 

 having my own little " Jobo " as a friend. For seeing 

 how captivated I was by the delightful manners of the 

 little Dum-dum (as this bird is called by Europeans on 

 the Coast), my friend Dr. Hopkinson, as he afterwards 

 told me, determined to bring me one on his next 

 return on leave from Gambia. And so he did ; land- 

 ing here on the 20th of last April, he immediately 

 wrote to me to my surprised delight that one would 

 reach me in a day or two. On the 25th it arrived, — a 

 vicious little rascal who fought and bit, as only a 

 Parrot can, whenever my hand approached it. 



In a few days, however, sufficient confidence was 

 established between us to allow of a ground nut being 

 taken from my fingers between the bars of the cage, 

 though immediately afterwards a sledgehammer blow 

 and a pincer like nip would be my reward. The next 

 stage, that of allowing me to gently stroke the culmen 

 of the beak with my finger tip, was longer in being 



