Alt rtghls /esetved,'] [APRIL, 1907. 



BIRD NOTES: 



THE JOURNAL OF 



THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 



^be 1bawk=bea()e^ Caique. 



(Deroptyus accipitrifnis) . 

 By Weslky T. Page, F.Z.S. 



This singular, droll, intelligent, and interesting 

 Parrot inhabits the Brazils and Honduras, where, 

 judging b}^ the numbers that leak through to this 

 country, it caimot be at all common. The bird whose 

 portrait adorns this issue was placed on deposit at the 

 Zoo (July 1906) by my esteemed friend and fellow 

 aviculturist Mr. E. W. Harper, from whom I purchased 

 it the following October. Their scarcity in British 

 Guiana is well illustrated by the fact that he has been 

 there about three years and only succeeded in obtain- 

 ing two, one of which unfortunately escaped, the other 

 forms the subject of our coloured plate. Very little 

 is known as to their wild life ; Mr. Harper informs me 

 that they seem to be only procurable from the abori- 

 gines in the interior. 



Plumage : Adult male. Head, with the exception 

 of the crown, brown ; the crown is creamy-buff, and 

 the feathers of the sides of the face have .shaft streaks 

 of the same colour, but slightly darker; the ruff or 

 long feathers of the nape, breast and abdomen deep 

 red, each feather being edged with opaline-blue ; 

 entire back, upper tail coverts and wings, rich grass- 

 green ; the bastard wing, primaries and coverts, black ; 



