CHAPTER XXXVII. 



or PeacVfaced 



I HIS is an African species, from the Gold Coast and 

 thereabouts: at first sight it seems to bear a 

 striking resemblance to the well-known Red-faced Love- 

 bird, which is one of the oldest inmates of the foreign- 

 bird aviary ; but on a closer inspection, there will be 

 found to be several points of difference. 



To begin with, the Peach-face is decidedly the larger 

 of the two, and the mask that covers his face is of a 

 delicate peach-bloom tint that is much prettier than 

 the fiery- red one that marks the more familiar bird. 

 Point number two, it is extremely doubtful whether 

 the Red-face has ever been bred in confinement, but 

 the Peach-face nests freely in cage and aviary, and has 

 been reproduced to the fourth generation at least, it 

 not further, and that, too, without any apparent 

 deterioration, which is unusual among cage-birds of 

 foreign (exotic) origin, not even excepting the entirely 

 hardy Cockateel. Thirdly, the Red-face is a stolid, 

 quiet, undemonstrative bird, but the Peach-face is noisy, 



