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My Toucan is a bird of distinct moods ; when he 

 sees me with some raw meat he gets very excited, and 

 one day he will eat it with relish and ask for more, 

 another he will simply take it and throw it down, and 

 the same with the mealworms. 



I have noticed that he sometimes uses his claws 

 like a bird of prey, when he gets hold of anything too 

 big to swallow, or if by chance he gets a piece 

 of banana skin, he holds it on his perch with both 

 feet and nibbles at the inside with much relish. 



His voice is rather like a donkey's bray, and 

 when a stranger is in the room, he uses it to such 

 purpose that you can hardly hear yourself speak ; and 

 in the summer time he occasionally starts shouting 

 before 4 o'clock in the morning, so my neighbours 

 must be longsuffering ! 



Another of his peculiarities is about his bathing. 

 He is very fond of a bath when he wants one, but if he 

 does not fancy it, no amount of syringing or coaxing 

 will make him take it. You may give him one several 

 days running without his taking any notice of it, and 

 perhaps if you do not put it in one day he simply 

 demands it; he tears up anything he can get hold of, 

 and throws his food pots about, and there is no peace 

 till he gets it, and it is a bath, too, when he has got it ; 

 he does not leave a dry feather or a dry spot in the 

 room. 



He is very tame and will let you do almost any- 

 thing with him, and is ver}' fond of being stroked, 

 and though sometimes he will make a funn}^ chatter- 

 ing noise as if he were very annoyed at being touched 

 he never attempts to move away, and will stand still 

 as long as you like to pet him. Sometimes, if I 



