52 Favourite Foreign Birds. 



Grass Parrakeet, and Warbling Grass Parrakeet, is 

 a native of South Australia, and breeds as freely 

 in confinement as a canary a well-grown specimen 

 of which familiar bird it about equals in size, though 

 its longer tail and shorter legs give it a quite different 

 appearance, as will be seen on reference to Fig. 13. 

 The general colour is vivid grass-green, the forehead 



FIG. 13. THE BUDGERIGAR. 



is primrose, and the back and wings are marked with 

 a number of blackish undulating lines that have caused 

 some naturalists to give it the name of Zebra Parra- 

 keet; the cere, or naked skin about the nostrils, is 

 sky-blue in the male and cream coloured in the female, 

 unless when she is nesting, when it turns brown. The 

 proper food is millet and canary-seed, to which oats 



