314 Mr. B.aynofs Aviary at HazcJHgh J^rcfory. 



shellors and of the flights (where they seem so to require) I 

 sprinkle with tlic rough red sand which I always have in stock 

 for the bottoms of my Parrot. -cages, eight of which I keep in 

 my study. Ta\'o of these appear in the photograph outside the 

 aviary. The one nearest th'^ wall contains a pair of Meyer's 

 Parrots {Poeocephalus mcjieri), which have lately been pre- 

 sented to me by a magnanimous lady residing in the New 

 Forest, into whose possession they came some two years since, 

 as a gift from Capt. Wilson, who brought them home him- 

 self from the Transvaal. They are quite young birds, judging 

 from the trightness of their eyes, and arc in beautiful plumage, 

 although each ha< a clipped wing, wliich will prevent thorn 

 appearing on the show -bench for the 'present: Koko and 

 Kosher, as they are called, are delightful little bird-, Avith very 

 graceful and winning ways, but the latter is, I regret to say, 

 a hen-pecked husband. The female is more- strongly and 

 stoutly built, with broader head and beak, but having smaller 

 and less vivid patches of yellow on head and shoulder than her 

 spouse. Each of them is re]Hited ,to be capable of saying 

 "Koko" and "Emily," but neither has said either up till now 

 In the other cage lives the very charming Grey Parrot (Vsit- 

 tacus enihacus) which I bought at the last Palace Show from 

 my fellow -member Mr. Schluter, and which Mr. Allen Silver 

 owned before him. He is a male, some six yea^s old, and is 

 a very friendly and lively bird, and an accomplished whistler: 

 but his vocabulary is not very large, " Doris," wdiich he says 

 most freciuently, was, no doulit, the name of a member of the 

 family in which he lived: but he also pronounces it Dorris and 

 I)ori-y - tlio latter generally with a nasal twang. Among other 

 things he can say are " Dorry no -Polly," " Hulloa, Poll!" 

 "Hulloa, Poll, Oh!" "Hulloa, young Poll," "What do you 

 want?" and "Come on," when he wants his head scratched. 

 He also says frequently and most clearly "Hulloa, Po-vell," 

 leading me to suppose that he once belonged to a very dis- 

 tinguished member of our club, and would fain recall him to 

 the ranks of aviculturists, Avho so deeply deplore the absence 

 fron our English shows of the many avian jewels which we 

 once admired. The other day "Bobby" said most distinctly, 

 in a very minor key, "What are you making that row for?" 

 evidently in allusion to the noises in which he himself had just 

 previously been indulging! He has learnt to say "Hulloa, 



