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The latter is, I think, the Eastern Nightingale. Is there any great

difference between this bird and our visitor (Philomela luscima) ?


- H. C. HESEETON.


7 he following reply was sent to Mr. Heselton :


(1) The Banded Parrakeet—India, eastwards to Cochin China, etc.


Andaman Islands.


(2) Large-billed or Andaman Parrakeet—Andaman Islands.


(3) Slaty-headed Parrakeet—Lower ranges of Himalayas.


(4) Malabar or Blue-winged Parrakeet—Malabar Coast (India).


(5) Malaccan or Long-tailed Parrakeet—Malaccan Peninsula, Singapore,


Sumatra, Borneo, Labuan, etc.


(6) Golzii —The Persian, not Eastern, Nightingale—Turkestan, Western


Persia, Caucasus, etc.


Efithacus (Danilas or Philomela ) Inscinia is our Western Nightingale.


E. philomela is the Sprosser, Eastern or Greater Nightingale.


E. golzii is the Persian Nightingale.


All three are very much alike. The Sprosser is usually a shade

larger than our bird, and more olive, with sometimes some faint cloudy

spots on breast. The Persian species is a trifle larger again, and is slightly

more olive than our Nightingale, and slightly more russet than the

Sprosser. Reginald Phieeipps.



SICK BUDGERIGAR.


Sir,—I shall be much obliged if advice can be given to me at once as

to what to do with a Budgerigar very ill with dysentery.


K. Hammond.



The following reply was sent to the Hon. K. Hammond :


No particulars are given as to the probable cause of the ailment.

Assuming matters to be as mentioned,—give as much aromatic confection

(from any chemist) as would lie on a sixpence, made into a paste with

water. If the bird will not take this, then try two drops of aromatic

sulphuric acid and one drop of laudanum in two teaspoonsful of water for

drinking; no other fluid to be allowed. W. T. Greene.



BLUE MOUNTAIN LORIKEETS.


Sir,—I n reply to the editorial foot-note, I beg to say that I consider

canary seed and a bit of apple quite as near an approach to natural food as

bread and milk. I maintain further that apple is not a sine qua non, as I sold

my pair of Blue Mountains to another member, and he has had them out of

doors over a year, and they get nothing but canary seed and water. More¬

over, Mr. Oates, of Leeds, used to keep his Blue Mountains on canary seed,

and they were always grand to look at. And I believe that Mr. Grace does

so still at Wakefield.


I do not see why, although Mr. Phillipps asserts it, Blue Mountains



