F. C- THORPE,


Importer of all Varieties of Foreign

Birds and (flaterfoml.


ANIMALS IMPORTED TO ORDER.


All Birds kept in Aviaries not Cages, and sent on approval.


v "75, SOUTH PARADE, HULL.


Stock in hand March 20, 1905.


i pair Red Mountain Doves £2 10/- pair, 2 pairs Talpacoti Doves 10/6

pair, 3 pairs Cambayan Doves beauties 12/6 pair, Chinese Quails 20/- pair,

Pennant’s Parrakeets 30/- each, Yellow Budgerigars 20/- pair, 1 Spotted¬

billed Duck, £1, 3 pairs adult Carolina Ducks 52/6 pair, Chinese Goose 9/6,

East Indian Drake 6/6, Albino Wild Ducks 16/- pair, 1 Gold Sparrow hen

6/6, 1 pair Anas superciliosa or New Zealand Wild Ducks 30/- pair.


Trumpeter Bullfinches 10/6 pair, Cockatiels 6/6 each, Porto Rico

Pigeons 40/- pair, very fine birds, Crowned Black Tanagers 25/- pair,

Chinese Zosterops 12/6 pair, 2 Hyacinthine Macaws, Redrump Parrakeets

30/- pair, Many-coloured Parrakeet hen £2 5/-, 1 pair Great-billed Parrakeets

[Palceornis magnirostris) true pair perfect condition £3 10/-, Spur-winged

Geese £3 pair, 1 rare Yellow Oriole 40/-, 6 pairs Bar-head Geese, £2 to/- pair,

1 Pied Albino Tanager, 2 cocks and 1 hen Red-capped Parrots £2 each, 1

Blue-bearded Jay 35/-, 2 Bare-eyed Cockatoos, talking, 30/- each, 6 pairs

Mandarin Ducks 30/- pair, 2 Golden-fronted Fruitsuckers 30/- each, Black¬

headed Conures 20/- each, White-eared ditto 15/- each, Black Larks 24/-

pair, 1 rare cock White-rumped Black Chat £2 (Pratincola caprata), 2

talking acclimatised Grey Parrots, one says thirty words ^"4 10/-, another

about seventy words £7 10/-, 3 Giant Whydahs £1 10/- each, pair adult Black

Swans £6 10/-, breeders, 10 pairs Teal 10 6 pair, 6 pairs Wigeous 10/6 pair,

4 pairs Rosy-billed Ducks 42 pair, 5 drake Mandarins, 2 years in England,

17/6 each, 1 male Australian Shelduck. Common Shellducks 20/- pair,

Bernacle Geese 35/- pair. Brent 20/-, Aurora Waxbills 12/6 pair. Due in

April: Great White Siberian Crane, Common Crane, Blue Coots, Argus

Pheasants. Due in May : Sliainas, Fruitsuckers, etc.


New arrivals this week ending March 18 th : SJ pairs beautiful Scaly

Doves 20/- pair, 7 pairs Black Larks 24/- pair, 1 pair Tui Parrakeets £2 10/-

1 pair Blue-winged Teal ^4. 1 pair Scarlet Macaws, 1 talking Bare-eyed

Cockatoo 30/-, t rare Tyrant 25/-, r pair Bluish Finches 15/-, io rare Crimson¬

shouldered Whydahs in colour £2 each, 4 rare Spine-tailed not in colour, 3

Crimson-collared ditto 35/- each, 5 rare Waxbills, 6 rare Weavers, 2 male

Orange-breasted Waxbills 2/6 each, 1 pair Rheas, 1 rare Monkey extremely

tame, 1 Azara’s Dog, 1 female Pileatus , I rare Conure, 6 rare Azure Tits,

Jew Waxwings all sold. 1 pair each Silver and Golden Pheasants, Silvers

20/- pair, Golden 35/- pair. 1 male White Swan 25/-, 1 Lemon - crested

Cockatoo 12/6, 23 Pekin Robins 2/6 each, 8 Budgerigars, 6 Zebra Finches, 4

Green Avadavats, and a few other common small birds. Due in next week :

Rare Amazons, three varieties, also Sultan Fowls, etc.


Stock Always Changing.



