The Bare-eyed Thrush. 81 



ate neighbour, a JMocking-Bird, drowns all his efforts; and 

 the Bare-eye will only sing in competition, never solus. 



In regard to^ his show career I will only here remark 

 that if 'the suggestion once made by a famous aviculturist, 

 that birid rarities should be labelled as such at Shows as a 

 guide for the judge, could be carried out it would be better 

 both for owner and bird I And that reminds me — one day 

 a visitor broke through our) lines and insisted on seeing the 

 birds. He passed all in silence until he came to the subject 

 of these notes; then his face lit up — " Ahl" said he " I don't 

 know much about birds but I do know what this is — iVs a 

 Cuckoo "I I shook hands with him for 1 recognised a judge 

 in embryo. 



The Bare-eye is not difficult to cater for in the way of 

 diet. A rich insectile mixture, plenty of grapes and a few 

 mealworms daily, wliilo a piece of sesame cake, of which all 

 my Softbills are very fond, delights the very cockles of his 

 heart. 



He is always in perfect show-form. Has a cold tub 

 daily, and is as happy and free from care as only a bird can 

 be. 



Of all my Thrushes, gorgeous and rare as some of them 

 are, 1 give preference to the Bare-eye as the gem of the 

 collection, may he continue to adorn it, until that dreadful 



day when he leaves the world behind. 



4 



Some Colony Birds. 



Reprinted from "'IIMLHRl " (The Journal of the Royal .Agricultural 

 and Commercial Society of iiiiii^h Guianaj, May, 1915; with com- 

 pliments and tlianks to the Author and Editors.— Ed. "B.N." 



Part ll. 

 [We published a conipilniion from Part I. in Bird 

 Note'i for 1912 uhicb somewlial sulYered from abridgement, 

 consequently we arc reprinting Part 11. /// extt'iiso. includ- 

 ing at the end of e-ich instalment the popular names by which 

 the birds are known in England, We feel assured that the 

 article will be of general interest many of the birds dealt 



