CONTENTS. IX 



CHAPTER. PAGE. 



VII. THE PARROTS AND PIGEONS ... ... 155183 



The Parrot Order Generally Typical Parrots 

 Ring-necked Parakeet Plum-headed Para- 

 keet Rosella Budgerigar The Lories For - 

 Men's Lorikeet Harlequin Lorikeet The 

 Cockatoos Cockatiel The Pigeons Tame. 

 Riny-Dove Wild Ring-Dove Red Dove- 

 Spotted Dove Little Brown Dove Bronze- 

 wing Dove Crested Dove Harrial or Green 

 Pigeon. 



VIII. MANAGEMENT OF CAPTIVE BIRDS ... ... 184 192 



Aviaries Moveable Verandah Cages Cages for 

 Single Birds Perches Nesting Places 

 Cleaning Feeding and Drinking- vessels Food 

 and Water Grit, Lime and Salt Rearing 

 Young Birds Breeding Taming Wild- 

 caught Birds Handling Birds Diseases and 

 Accidents The Best Birds to Keep Trans- 

 port of Birds. 



Note. Names of birds not occurring wild in the Indian Empire are 

 given above in italics, while in the text they are marked with an asterisk. 



