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barnardi) to tlie Avicultural Society, subject to the following conditions : —


1. — The birds are to go to a bona fide Member of the Society (not a

dealer) who can offer them a good home, preferably in an aviary.


2. — The birds, which are not to be separated, are to be allotted by the

Executive Committee.


3. — If there should arise any doubts as to whom the birds should be

allotted to, the Member who shall make the highest offer in cash shall have

them, if he be an approved applicant in other respects. Nevertheless, the

Committee may allot them to a Member who can offer them a good home,

or is desirous of studying aviculture, whether he make the highest offer or

not.


4. — The Allottee shall be expected, in any circumstances, to offer for

the birds a sum sufficient to cover'all expenses.


5. —Any profit made on the transfer of the birds is to go to the Funds

of the Society.


Description of the Birds: — They are a pair, three, or possibly

four, years old, have been flying loose for more than a year, and seem to be

in good health and plumage. The only known defect is that recently the

male was bitten on the foot bv another Parrakeet. The wound, which can¬

not be examined while the birds are in the aviary, is painful, but possibly

only of a temporary character. Last March the birds wanted to nest, but

there was no available accommodation for them.


18th January, 1895. Reginaed Phieeipps.


[The warmest thanks of the Society are due to Mr. Phillipps for this

most generous gift. Any' Member wishing to have the birds, and able to

comply with the conditions laid down by the donor, must apply to the

Secretary within 14 days, who will submit all applications to the Executive

Committee.]



BEQUESTS TO THE SOCIETY.


THE BLACK-HEADED CxLIAQUE, &c.


Sir, — I am slowly' convalescing from typhoid fever, and during my

seven weeks’ imprisonment in bed, the question which constantly' recurred

to me was,—What will become of my feathered friends if I die ? Will it be

dealing fairly' by' them to pack them off wholesale to the dealer ? For my

birds, though not rare, are used to individual petting.


Grey Polly has found a future owner, but there is Jot, the jolly little

Caiaque, with his pretty whistle and merry ways. A word about him. His

chief amusement is to climb up the window-cord, sailor fashion, or to hop

up stairs and have a good chuckle at the top, after which he will creep into

my pocket and there go to sleep; and when I was ill in bed he would lay

his little head confidingly on the pillow and cuddle under the blankets.

Eminently sociable, he will go to any stranger and very gently pinch ear or

finger to test their powers of endurance, if they' show signs of fear he has a

hearty laugh at their expense, for vice he has none, and he never means to

hurt them. He play's with balls and reels of cotton, and like Dr. Greene’s

Hawk-headed Parrot “Pinto,” he will drive an imaginary wheelbarrow

across the table with his beak. He is a good dancer, and loves to display

his talent whenever a tune is whistled, preferably the “ Old Kent Road."

Bathing, splashing, and rubbing himself dry' in a cloth is indulged in weekly,

but to being bathed he will not submit, and to soap he lias a decided

objection.


His colours are black hat and boots ; yellow cravat and knicker¬

bockers ; green coat; and white waistcoat — at least white it should be, and

this is my only'complaint, for it is not as white as his brother’s, the “ Master

of the Buckhounds,” exhibited by' Mrs. Pretyman at last year's Palace Show,

though -when afterwards she came here to see Jot, she said Jot was in every

other respect the nicer bird of the two. The eyes ai - e bright red. He is as



