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and is inclined to hop as well as walk. It also incults much later. This is 

 as much as I have yet been able to make out from studying the live birds, 

 and I am not sure whether these uniformly-coloured young are merely the 

 males, as Jerdon says, or a distinct race, or even species. Against the 

 latter view, and tending to prove the existence of much variation, may 

 be instanced the fact that we have in the Indian Museum the skin of a 

 nestling which is in perfectly hrtght adult plumage, whereas the young 

 birds of the second type mentioned above resemble those of C. cTiLororhynchus 

 as figured in Captain V. Legge's ' Birds of Ceylon,' or may be even duller and 

 darker. All the young birds I have seen have grey eyes and black bills, flesh- 

 coloured at the base in the case of the barred specimens. 



PSITTACI. 



The Parrots are of course very important in the present connexion, though 

 many of them are not cage-birds in the literal sense, for they are quite as 

 often chained, as mentioned above; this is the case even with Parrakeets and 

 Lories, Many foreign species are imported, and some very rare forms 

 occasionally occur; but, not being specially interested in the group, I have not 

 kept any record of these, and must confine myself to the more usual impor- 

 tations. But I would strongly advise any member of the B. 0. U. who likes 

 rare Parrots, or wants specimens of them, not to neglect examining the 

 Calcutta dealers' stocks, if he ever has the opportunity of so doing. 



Family LoRiiDiE. 



The justice of what I have remarked above is evidenced by the fact that 

 TWc/iogZossits/ors^em, which was not even in the British Museum ten. years 

 a" o and was only received by the -.London Zoological Society in 1896, has 

 been at any rate since I came here in 1894, quite the most commonly 

 imported Lory; indeed, I am not sure that it has not been brought in 

 more numerously than any other exotic Parrot. It thrives very well in cap- 

 tivity, and has bred in the Calcutta Zoological Garden, Tricheglossus swain- 

 soni and T. omatus are also not uncommon. Of the other Lories, Eosricl- 

 niata is perhaps, the most abundant; but Lorius garrulus is also plentiful, L, 

 domicella far from rare, and L. lory often to be seen. 



Family CACATUiDiE. 



The commonest Cockatoos imported are Cacatua mlpliurea and C.Roaeicapilla 

 which come in large numbers and are sold for a few rupees only. C. galeriia. 

 is also common, C. alba much less so, and C. leadbeateri rather rare.. The 

 great C. moluccensis is always on sale, though not imported in any very great 

 quantity at one time, eacb bird being anchored in the manner above 

 described to an L-slia.ped perch of wood, and so kept unless transferred to a 

 swing. I have particularly noticed the great tameness and intelligence of 

 these birds. All of them are eager for notice, and they will frequently invite 

 me to scratch their heads by beginning to ruffle their feathers with one 

 foot— in fact, will make a sign of their wishee. The only other species I have 

 ever seen do this was a Red Macaw lately in Mr, Rutledge's possession; but 



