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Passerine Dove. The male purchased July 1899 is still

living after eleven and a half years.


Tambourine Dove. Male presented August 1902 still

living after seven and a half years.


Blue-spotted Dove. Purchased 1903, still living; over

seven years.


Emerald Dove. Purchased 1903, still living : over seven


years.


Bronze-winged Pigeon. Purchased 1897 1 the hen

still living after thirteen years and a half.


Of the foregoing the following are the most noteworthy : —

Menila boulboul . . . . Nearly nine years : still living.


Cittocincla macrura . . Over seven years :


Pycnonotus sinensis. Eleven years and nine months:



Tanagra oniata . .

Rhamphoccelus brazilius

Poephila mirabilis

,, longicauda


Tceniopygia castanotis .

Amadina erythrocephala

Munia oryzivora. .


Quelea quelea

Icterus vulgaris . .

Agelasticus humeralis .

Garrulus glandarius

Geopelia cuneata

Chavioepelia passerina . .

Tynipanist> ia tympanistria.

Chalcopclia afra.


,, chalcospila ..



Over seven years:

Fourteen years :


Five and a half years :

Five and a half years :

Nine years :


Six years :


Over fourteen years:

Over sixteen years:

Eleven and a half years :

Over twenty-one years:

Over twelve and a half years :


.. Over seven years :


Eleven and a half years :

Seven and a half years :

Over seven years :



Phaps chalcoptera . . Thirteen and a half years :


When describing the mating of my Grey-winged Ouzel to

a female Blackbird, I mentioned an English Blackbird which

fought the Indian species through the wire-netting of its aviary

throughout the summer of 1904 and up to the end of February

1905, when we captured it : I still have that Blackbird in perfect

health and condition after six years in a partition of my little

ornamental aviary. I find that all Blackbirds are fond of oranges



