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eagle is thoroughly up to the high standard of Mr. Thorburn’s paint¬

ings, the splendid bird being depicted in flight, skirting a snow-clad

mountain slope and carrying in its talons a hare in winter pelt.

The eagle owl is also honoured by a full-length portrait, solitary,

except for his mate with wide-spread pinions in the distance, amongst

the pine woods of the higher altitudes of the continent where this

fine owl is found.


One wishes the white-tailed sea-eagle and others could have

also figured by themselves, but the allotted space prevents this.

The paintings of the Greenland and Iceland falcons gives one how¬

ever another beautiful picture, which is difficult to obtain in the

case of most of the plates where one has a pot-pourri of a genus.


If one is to criticise at all, perhaps it may be that the figure

of the male cuckoo is not so convincing, for the bird does not seem

to be grasping the bough on which it is perching, and the eye is

slightly languid in expression. Mr. Thorburn might have depicted

our spring favourite as uttering its sonorous call, giving the eye that

glitter of gold which it has. By-the-bye, do our kingfisher’s crown-

feathers stand away from the nape of the neck in a crest-like forma¬

tion ? and the blackbird in the talons of the sparrow-hawk looks too

large compared with the slayer thereof! But such criticism should

not prevent aviculturists and lovers of our native birds in their wild

state from adding Mr. Thorburn’s fine work to their ornithological

library. H. D. A.



ENGLISH NAMES FOR THE PARROTS.


By Dr. E. HOPKINSON.


(Concluded from page - il ).


YELLOW CONURE, Conurus solstitialis. Old names, * Angola Yellow

Parrot, *Mexican Yellow Parrot, ^Brazilian Yellow Parrot,

Var. B. (Latham) ; Solstitian Parrot , *Yellow Parrot. Native

name, “ Kessi-kessi.”


*Yellow Maccaw-Parrot, Latham’s name for the GOLDEN CONURE.

♦Yellow Parrot, see YELLOW CONURE.


♦Yellow Parrot, Angola, see YELLOW CONURE.


♦Yellow Parrot, Brazilian, see GOLDEN CONURE.


♦Yellow Parrot, Var. B., Brazilian, see YELLOW CONURE.



