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placed it, in the first instance, in the kitchen, where, 

 I soon found, it was not at all in its place. 



At first, I was not sure of the bird's identity, as 

 I had never seen one of the kind before, either preserved 

 in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington 

 (where, by the bye, the authorities seem bent on 

 revolutionizing avian nomenclature, and establishing 

 one of their own, though on what principle, or lack 

 of principle, I cannot guess) or elsewhere ; but from 

 its appearance, and a comparison with the description 

 given by Russ, I soon came to the conclusion that the 

 bird was the Lineolated Parrakeet, readily dintinguished, 

 as Dr. Russ remarks in his great work " Die Papageien," 

 from all other Parrots and Parrakeets by the deep 

 black of its back and head and neck, and its green 

 wings. 



I then referred to the "List" of the London Zoolog- 

 ical Society and found that the name occurred there, 

 but I have a recollection, not quite distinct though, 

 that the birds so denominated in that place were 

 quite different from my Parrakeet, and were rather a 

 small variety, or local race, of the Quaker, and not at 

 all the bird we are now considering, which I have 

 certainly never met with in the Parrot House during 

 a tolerably lengthened acquaintance with that Chamber 

 of Horrors, as a recent writer has, not altogether 

 inappropriately perhaps, named that feathered Pande- 

 monium. 



