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Tlie various species of these exquisite birds agree 

 well together : an indoor aviary of say a floor area of 

 6 ft. by 8 ft., and 6 or more feet high, with about a 

 dozen of these avian gems disporting themselves on 

 growing plants and twiggy branches would make a 

 grand display, and I hope at no distant time to make 

 the experiment. While providing retirement, there 

 would of course need to be abundance of light, and 

 the sun should have free access to at least half the 

 aviary. 



1Rote6 on iiiv IParral^eets auD Bviaiies. 



By the Hon. & Rev. Canon Dutton. 



I have been asked to write something for Bird 

 Notes, but I have not had much to tell, and I have not 

 the art of writing interestingly about nothing. 



It so happened that my bird arrangements were 

 disturbed by my being unable to get a tenant for my 

 Vicarage, which I have let since 1891 ; and I had to 

 return to it and live in it myself. It has an excellent 

 situation, on a bank sloping to the south, but my 

 aviaries, which were rather makeshift structures, had 

 been allowed b\'^ my tenants to go to rack and ruin. 



When I returned, it was difficult to know where to 

 house my birds. I turned over in my mind making a 

 clean sweep, but I had a Versicolor Amazon given 

 me by a friend I was unwilling to part with. So I 

 determined to convert a small woodhouse into a bird- 

 room. It made very confined quarters, but it housed 

 for the moment three Pceocephalus se7iegalensis, three 

 Palcrornis longicaitda, one Pal. docilis, the versicolor and 

 a Blue-fronted Amazon. 



