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take. I found four Striated, four Black-headed, aud 

 four Three-coloured Mannikins to n\y liking to fill up, 

 but left them till later in the day. Then I dashed off 

 to the Zoo. and visited my friend (on paper only till 

 then) R. B. Saniyal Rai Bahadur, the Superintendent. 

 I was sorry to find him seedy, so he could not take me 

 round. He told me there was nothing for sale in the 

 Zoo, and that rather damped my interest. The birds 

 all round were distinctly good except in my line, 

 which was just as well, as in my then state of mind I 

 should have been almost capable of heavily bribing a 

 keeper to have an accident, or at best of uselessly 

 worr3'ing the Superintendent. 



Back to the hotel to find the birds from Mr. Kzra 

 waiting for me. Back to the bazaar to get another 

 cage and have another look round. Here I found a 

 very different state of things from the morning. More 

 than double the number of shops were open and there 

 were crowds and crowds more birds, though not much 

 more in my line. Still I got hold of four Red Rosellas,. 

 not in the best plumage, after much haggling. I 

 found, too, a considerable difference in the prices- 

 asked, the mean white game evidently had some re- 

 sult. There were several varieties of Buntings and 

 Finches (Indian). A nice pair of Red-crested Car- 

 dinals were to me a sore temptation, but I think the 

 thought that I really did not want them had more 

 to do with my success in resisting than the knowledge 

 that the price was more than I felt I ought to give. 

 (To be continued). 



