200 FEATHERED FRIENDS. 



thing had received such injuries in the back and sides, 

 that I felt sure it must die. 



I placed it in an ordinary Canary breeding-cage in 

 a quiet corner, well supplied with food and water, and 

 left it, thinking it would be dead before morning. But 

 no, in spite of the formidable hurt it had received, the 

 bird made a rapid and complete recovery, and in three 

 weeks from the time of the scuffle, during which it 

 had lost the whole of its long tail, it reproduced 

 another, and was as well and "perky" as ever. 



It was an exceedingly pretty, inoffensive little crea- 

 ture, green as to its general colour, but with a narrow 

 band of red on its forehead, succeeded by a wider 

 one of a golden yellow that reached to the middle of 

 the top of the head. The eyes were reddish-brown, 

 and the bill pale lead-colour; the long tarsi and the 

 toes were bluish-slate-grey. The breast and the rest of 

 the under parts were yellowish-green and the shoul- 

 ders blue. 



It had a very sweet voice, but ultimately came to 

 an untimely end, poor thing, owing to its long claws 

 becoming entangled in the nest of a Weaver-bird, 

 where it died before its sad predicament was discovered. 



Scientific name, Cyanorhamphus auriceps. 



