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Longevity in Captivity.



Emerald Dove. Died in March, 1912 ; nine years in my

aviaries.



Bronze-winged Pigeon. Died 29th October, 1911 ;



fourteen years in my possession.


As before I will call attention to the most long-lived :—



Merula boulboul

Cittocincla macrura

Pycnonotus sinensis

Tanagra ornata

Bhamphoccelus brazilius

Poephila mirabilis



Eleven years : still living.


Over nine years :


Over fourteen years :


Nine and three-quarter years

Sixteen years:


Eight years:



,, longicauda

Tceniopygia castdnotis

Amadina erythrocephala . ..

Munia oryzivora

Quelea quelea


Icterus vulgaris

Garrulus glandarius

Calopsittaci ts nova-hoi landi ce

Geopelia cuneata

Tympanistria tympanistria

Chalcopelia afra ...


,, chalcospila ...

Phaps chalcoptera



Ten years : dead.


Seven and a half years : ,,


Over sixteen years: still living.


Eighteen & three-quarter


years: ,,


Fourteen years ,,


Thirteen years : dead.


Over seven & a half years : still living.


Over nine years : ,,


Over eleven years : ,,


Ten years: dead.


Nine years : ,,


Fourteen years: ,,



A few birds have been given to me since I published my last

paper on this subject, hut some of these were evidently almost played

out when they came into my hands and have since joined the

majority : I have also bought five British, and one foreign, birds :

the most interesting being a very brightly coloured Liothrix lutea,

approaching the Chinese type and mentioned in my recent paper

upon that species ; it is becoming' riskily tame, and I am constantly

in dread of its escaping when I enter the aviary where it is.



