156



Notes.



P. pulcherrimus, Beautiful Parrakeet.


Gould, B. Aust., v, pi. 34.


Cass., 437, pi., p. 444 (male, female, and young male).

Buss, iii, 96, 825, pi.


P. chrysopterygius, Golden-shouldered Parrakeet.


Gould, B. Aust., Suppl., pi.


Seth-Smith, Parrakeets, 202, pi.


P. multicolor, Many-coloured Parrakeet.


Gould, B. Aust., v, pi. 35.


Seth-Smith, Parrakeets, 206, pi.


Cass., 437, pi. (male and female).


Russ, iii, 111, pi.


P. hcematonotus, Redrump Parrakeet.


Gould, B. Aust., v, pi. 36.


Cass., 437, pi., p. 439.


Russ, iii, 101, pi.


(To be continued.)



NOTES.


Mr. Allen Silver (London Regiment), who up till recently

was a member of the Society, an enthusiastic aviculturist, and

a contributor to the Magazine, has, we greatly regret to record,

been so seriously wounded that it has been necessary to amputate his

right leg. He has written to the Editor with that wonderful spirit

of cheeriness and pluck which possesses our soldiers, telling him of

birds he saw on the battlefields in France, and adding “ All being

w T ell, I shall have to start aviculture again one day, and then I hope to

rejoin the Society.” We are sure he will be warmly welcomed back.

Amongst many of the more ordinary species of birds which he saw

about the trenches, such as Robins, Wrens, Blackbirds, Woodlark,

Meadow-pipits, etc., he mentions Grey Wagtails, which “ often ran

about on the ice in the shell-holes. There is also a dark little hawk,

probably a Merlin, not bigger than a Missel-thrush, that is always in

evidence, and sometimes comes over the top of a trench at such a

rate as to set men dodging, thinking it is some missile.”


Messrs. Witherby & Co. have been appointed European

Agents for the ‘Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam.’


The work is illustrated with plates and figures, and deals with

all branches of the natural history of that country.



