S2 The Terror by Night. 



298.— WHITE-FRONTED AMAZON I. Icucnccf^hnhi. 



1 hiiKI l)S, 



W'lirrivl'RONTF.D AMAZON x lU.UI'M'RC )NTI':i) AMAZON. 

 AIh-cxkI. W.T.P. C. 

 At Karlsnilu- in 18S5. fA.G.r.. ii. 181. 



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[299.— BAHAMA AMAZON .1 hahanioists. 



One li.itclu-d willi I'.ohIkiU' in i()i)(). )iut il died. tA.d.i'.. ii. iSi.] 

 300. — GREY PARROT. I'sitlacns crylhaciis. 



I'irsl lircd at i\irc;dl in iS4_^. (Zoologist, vol. ii. 1844). 



l"(n- lliis i>Ui.Trstint;' record ( ? llie only one in tlic I.'. K.I. sec A.M. 1917, 



55- 



Abroad. Succc-^sfully bred by Herr TM-itz Lolze in 1900. tA.ri.P). ii. 192 



and earlier, 1 lln'nk. l.)y Mrs. Reid in Madeira. IC.ll. 



Rowlev in liis Ornilliogical Miscellany (i. 165), writes : " Iluffon says 



that a pair in confinement bred and hatched their youn"- for a series of 



five or six vears. Later observation has not confirmed this remarkable 



circumstance." 



To be coni'inued. 



-^SM^>- 



The Terror by Night. 



By B. Theo. Stewart. 



It was a very old house datinj;- back to the 14th century. 

 Inside there were secret hidinsii' places built into the wall ; a room 

 in one of the chinuieys, and a secret passai^e or duntjeon. as the 

 villat^'ers called it, right underneath the pleasant sunny sitting- 

 room, and visitors marvelled when, on opening an innocent- 

 looking cupboard, a yawning cavern, approached l)y unsafe 

 steps, confronted them. The old house was haunted, needless 

 to say, but whether the " vibrations " everywhere were of a 

 soothing or disturbing" nature troubled us not one whit. 



And in that sunny sitting room, in a larg^e closely wired 

 cage, dwelt some happy little birds — Bengali, Nuns, Spice Birds 

 and tiny Waxbills. They sang and they danced, a joy to them- 

 selves, and dear to the tender heart of their owner. 



