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beautiful Piecl ( Cenjle ruclis ) and the great Stork-billed ( Pelargopsis

gurial) ; all Kingfishers are easily brought up if one has fish to give

them and can stand the yells and smells they generate. When they

are reared,however, the difficulty begins, as they knock themselves

about in a cage, and in an aviary are generally too quarrelsome for

even a pair to live together, though individuals of different species

will do so. For aviculture, therefore, the best species are the well-

known Laughing Jackass ( Dacelo gigantea) and the Sacred Kingfisher

(.Halcyon sanctco ) both birds of which the pair will live together, and

land-feeders, so that they will do well on raw meat, to which must be

added such items of food as mealworms, mice, small fish, and large

insects.


(To be continued).



SALE OF MONS. R. PAUWEL’S

COLLECTION.



The breaking up of the unique collection of foreign birds,

belonging to Mons. K. Pauwels, of Brabant, Belgium, is an event

of some importance in the history of aviculture, for this was pro¬

bably the finest private collection of rare living birds ever brought

together. From the catalogue, which we understand has been sent

to all the members of the Avicultural Society, there appears to he

some three hundred foreign birds, mostly of very rare specie, for

disposal, amongst which may be mentioned Pileated and Bourke’s

Parrakeets, Stella Lories, Blue Budgerigars, Tri-coloured and Fiji

Parrot-Finches ; rare Fruit-Pigeons, Touracous, Sugar-birds, Sun-

birds, Tanagers, Woodpeckers, Orioles and Fruit-suckers.


The collection of Paradise Birds, with the exception of a

Twelve-wired and two Count Rag'gi’s Birds, have been sold to

various Continental Zoological Gardens.



