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Its cage was kept covered with a 

 piece of clean linen just as the Shama is 

 treated in this country. Finn relates his 

 experience of this bird as follows — ''A 

 tame bird I kept recalled in its actions 



Chloropsis and Leothrix ; it grasped 



food in one foot like the latter or a Shrike. 

 It was shy at first, but soon got tame. 

 I was told adults could not be kept, and 



mine was a hand-reared one I did 



not see it show any sociability, and it 

 seemed able to take care of itself with 

 other birds". 



Early Ornithologists classified the lora 

 with Chloropsis^ while others grouped it 

 as a Bulbul. Legge names it the ^'Bush- 

 bulbul". But if, on account of its -supposed 

 resemblance, we treat an lora as a 

 Bulbul, we shall not get satisfactory re- 

 sults. For the lora is not like the latter 

 a fruit-eater. Oates says that the lora 

 shows affinities with the SyJviidae as it 

 has two moults a year. I believe that 

 if we treat the captive lora as to its food 



