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Correspondence



asking members requiring birds to communicate with us. Perhaps

some of the data in this letter may be of interest to members.


“ If circumstances warrant some of the rarer Parrots may be

exported and perhaps some birds of Paradise, but further details of

these will be sent later on.”


List of birds that can be supplied for zoological purposes.


Emu, Cassowary, Wedge-tail Eagle, Whistling Eagle, Kite, Brown

Hawk, Scrub-Turkey, Megapode, Black Swan, Chestnut Sheldrake,

Chestnut-breasted Teal, White-eyed Duck, Shoveller Duck, Whistling

Duck, Pied Goose, Maned Goose, Crested Bronzewing, Bar-shouldered

Dove, Peaceful Dove, Red-eyed Dove, Plumed Pigeon, Torres Strait

Pigeon, Rose-crowned Fruit Pigeon, Purple-breasted Fruit Pigeon,

Little Green Pigeon, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Leadbeater’s Cockatoo,

Bare-eyed Cockatoo, Rose-breasted Cockatoo, Long-billed Cockatoo,

Black Cockatoo, Gang-gang Cockatoo, Cockatoo Parrot, Red-winged

Parrot, King Parrot, Crimson Parrot, Pale-headed Parrot, Green Parrot,

Rosella Parrot, Mallee Parrot, Yellow-collared Parrot, Red-rumped

Parrot, Many-coloured Parrot, Warbling Grass Parrakeet (Budgerigar),

Blue-bellied Lorikeet, Musk Lorikeet, Australian Crane, Egret, White¬

necked Heron, Straw-necked Ibis, Red-billed Coot, Great Kingfisher,

Pied Crow-Shrike, White-winged Chough, Grey Jumper, Spotted-sided

Finch, Zebra Finch, Banded Finch, Chestnut-breasted Finch

(Pictorella), Plum-headed Finch, Red-browed Finch, Star Finch,

Long-tailed Finch, Black-throated Finch, Masked Finch, Gouldian

Finch, Crimson Finch.



CORRESPONDENCE


TWO JAYS


Sirs, —When in the London Zoological Gardens in August last I spent

some time in watching two Pileated Jays (Cyanocorax cJtrysops) from

La Plata, in the Western Aviary. There was something about these Jays

which attracted and fascinated me as they j limped about on the ground

by a series of high hops, and one incident was especially interesting

to watch.



