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and lively bird does well in captivity, and has even been 
bred in the Calcutta Zoological Garden, the eggs being 
laid in an ordinary pigeon-box. 
A still better Lorikeet, the Blue Mountain Lory of 
Australia (Trichoglossus swainsoni) is occasionally im- 
ported, and much resembles Forsten’s. It has, however, 
the head and belly intense violet instead of purple, the 
red breast shading into yellow at the sides, and the tail 
much longer. This bird will eat seed as well as soft 
food, and is the easiest to keep of all Lories. 
THE Harwiequin Lorikreet (Trichoglossus ornatus)* 
from Celebes, Buton and Togian Islands, is the 
liveliest and gayest of all the Lories imported. The 
arrangement of his colours may be gathered from the 
figure on Plate VII (Fig. 4) ; the red breast is barred with 
purple, and the collar is bright yellow. There are also 
some yellow markings on the green of the upper back 
and of the belly. The sexes are alike, as is always the 
case with Lories. 
The great activity and brilliant colours of this bird 
make it a very striking ornament for an aviary and an 
interesting cage-bird. As the male, at any rate, is of 
a very amorous description, it would probably not be 
difficult to breed the species in captivity in so favourable 
a climate for these tropical birds as India presents. 
THE COCKATOOS. 
These are large short-tailed Parrots as a rule, always 
with some sort of a crest and with the plumage chiefly 
white, black, or grey, varied with red and yellow. They 
