56 Favourite Foreign Birds. 



preceding species. Its tail is long, and its head is 

 ornamented with a crest. The general colour is ash- 

 grey, with a bar of white across each wing. The face 

 of the male is yellow, which distinguishes him from the 

 female ; the tail of the latter is also marked profusely 

 with narrow yellow bars on the under-surface, while 

 that of the male is black. Both sexes have a small 

 patch of a brick-red colour on the side of the face. 



FIG. 1 6. THE TURQUOISINE. 



This species breeds very freely in confinement. Both 

 birds sit on the eggs the male during the day, the 

 female at night. Incubation lasts about seventeen days, 

 and the number of young varies from three to seven. 

 There are about four broods during the season, which 

 extends from May to October, the female frequently 

 beginning to lay again before the little ones have left 



