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were treasures too, including six or more Birds of 

 Paradise of about four varieties and I scarcely did 

 more than glance at them. Please remember that I 

 had to catch the 9.30 p.m. that night to get me back 

 for Christmas day, and that I had come down to buy, 

 and such rarities were beyond me. There were also 

 some lovely Lorikeets and some rare Albinos. 



A proper description of all would require an 

 article to itself. Like most aviculturists Mr. Ezra 

 generally has some surplus to dispose of, and I believe 

 under the circumstances he would have let me take 

 almost anything he had, and it is due to his kindness 

 then and afterwards that my visit to Calcutta was 

 a real success and that my aviaries eventually filled up 

 ALMOST enough to please me. Was there ever an 

 aviculturist whose aviaries are really full, however 

 crowded they may be? I have to own up that the 

 birds that really impressed me were what I took away, 

 and those I fain would have taken away, i.e., those in my 

 line. The former consisting of six Cherry, six Chest- 

 nut, and two Parson Finches, two Redrump Parrakeets, 

 and I think some other small birds, but cannot re- 

 member what without looking it up, and I dare not 

 start looking up things or this will never be sent in. 

 Among the latter were Mealy Rosellas (real beauties, 

 I do not know how I came to leave these, however T got 

 some of them later, but Dr. Greene's lukewarm account 

 of these lovely and charming birds put me off). 

 Yellow Budgerigars (also obtained later, did not do so 

 well with me) and Alario Finches. 



Then I went off to breakfast after a much-needed 

 clean up. The manager of the hotel was most 

 interested in the birds and said he had some I might 



