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A pair of eggs which I took in Nuddea has not been included in these 
measurements. 
Tn captivity this species also seems to be fed by natives principally on a 
vegetable diet, and it appears to thrive on this; but I have noticed—it may be 
only fancy—that birds fed thus are duller in colour than those fed on a meat or 
insect diet. Such is certainly the case with O. hardwickii, the blue parts beng 
duller and the green the same, and, moreover, tinged with blue, much as is the 
case with caged green magpies (Cissa sinensis). The first bird of this species I 
ever saw in captivity belonged to one of my servants, and I have never seen one 
as tame since. As it was allowed to fly about without restraint, it naturally 
gave free vent to its appetite for insects, and thus retained its proper coloration ; 
but at the same time it by no means despised plantains, and when shut up, 
as it sometimes was, ate them freely, I was told by the servants that this 
bird caught and devoured wasps and hees, but could get none at the time to test 
the truth of the assertion, and shortly afterwards the bird died a violent death. 
This habit of catching wasps may have been copied from a tame Racket-tailed 
Drongo (Dissemurus yaradiseus) which shared with it its semi-imprisonment. 
It was remarkably noticeable how the small bulbul “bossed” its much larger 
companion who, had he wished, could have easily killed him, As a rule, they 
got on very well together, but the bulbul was very jealous and resented any 
attention being shown to the shrike. 
I am much afraid that this bird, like I/yiophoneus temminckit, has died out, 
for, since 1890, I have not seen a single bird, of course, amongst the many 
C. aurifrons that I am constantly seeing, it is quite possible that I may over- 
look one or two birds of this species, and it is to be hoped that such may be 
the case. 
