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bles that which is heard from a monkey in dis- 

 tress. When insects are given to this bird, he 

 is not so particular as his neighbour, but devours 

 them instantly entire, either dead or alive, look- 

 ing immediately afterwards for another supply. 

 The food given to it is boiled rice, grasshoppers, 

 &c. Like others of its tribe, it is fond of pil- 

 fering and concealing whatever is heedlessly left 

 in its way, and it can carry off. To speak 

 phrenologically, its acquisitiveness is large, and 

 conscientiousness small. 



Several beautiful Loris, from the islands of 

 the eastern Archipelago, clothed in brilliant* and 

 gaudy plumage, are in the collection. Among 

 these are the Amboyna and Ternate Loris, 

 called Kustoree in the language of the natives ; 

 the King parrot of New South Wales, {Platy- 

 cercus scapulatus,) and others of the parrot tribe 

 from different parts of the world. I observed an 

 Indian ring-neck parroquet, with its breast, 

 for the whole extent, bare of feathers ; (in which 

 state it has been for five years and upwards, and 

 as the glands are destroyed they cannot be re- 

 newed ; the loss of plumage was attributed origi- 

 nally to giving the creature salt meat ;) its long 

 tail is quite perfect. This ridiculous-looking, half- 

 fledged production of the parrot tribe, gets upon 

 and clings to the bars of its cage on any person 



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