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pieces after some days. Probably the weight of the 

 two parasites had broken it down, or it may be that 

 the two young cuckoos had fallen overboard owing to 

 want of comfortable room inside the nest, or again 

 this may have been spoiled by my servant when try- 

 ing to remove it from the tree. 



The native name for this bird in both islands is 

 *'Lobo" ; in the Gaboon it is called " BrotiotocoUe." 



It feeds on berries as well as on insects, and with 

 insect food given to it in large quantities it will live 

 in confinement for a long period, but never becomes 

 tame. The one whose portrait, originally drawn in 

 1866, accompanies these notes, was caught by myself 

 in Prince's island and remained alive for two vears. 



Strange Httacbments of Bir&5. 



By the late W. T. Greene, M.A., M.D., F.Z.S. 



Birds form very curious attachments sometimes, 

 not only among themselves, but also for animals and 

 even for mankind. 



I once saw a lycadbeater's Cockatoo and a Blue 

 Mountain Lory that were devotedly attached to each 

 other despite the difference of species and the disparity 

 in size. They had been caged together for some time, 

 and the smaller bird usually slept under the right wing 

 of the larger one, which was folded over it, and which 

 after a time stuck out as if the bone had grown stiff 

 from constantly overlapping the Lory. 



A lady with whom I was acquainted had in her 

 possession for some time a couple of Lovebirds, both 

 hens, one of which was a Redface and the other a 

 Madagascar. They always sat side by side and used 



