F. C. THORPE,


Importer of all Varieties of foreign

Birds and (Qaterfoml.


ANIMALS IMPORTED TO ORDER,


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


Noie 75, SOUTH PARADE, HULL.


Stock in hand April 20, 1905.


4 pairs Talpacoti Doves 15/-pair, 2 pairs Cambayan Doves beauties 12/6

pair, Chinese Quails 20/- pair, Pennant’s Parrakeets 30/- each, 1 Spotted-

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

East Indian Drake 6/6, Call Ducks 12/6 pair, x Gold Sparrow hen 6/6, 1 pair

Anas superciliosa or New Zealand Wild Ducks 30/- pair, Porto Rico Pigeons

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

Parrakeet hen £2 5/-, Spur-winged Geese £5 pair, 1 rare Yellow Oriole 40/-, 4

pairs Bar-head Geese £2 10/- pair, 1 Pied Albino Tanager, 2 cock Red-capped

Parrots £2 each, 2 Pileated Jays 35/- each, 1 Bare-eyed Cockatoo 25/-, 6

pairs Mandarin Ducks 32/6 pair, Black-headed Conures 30/- pair, White¬

eared ditto 12/6 each, 2 talking acclimatised Grey Parrots, one says thirty

words £4 10/-, another about seventy words £7 10/-, pair adult Black Swans

£6 10/-, breeders, 6 pairs Teal 10/6 pair, 1 pair Wigeons 13/6 pair, 1 pair

Rosy-billed Ducks £2 10/- pair, 5 drake Mandarins, 2 years in England, 17/6

each, 1 male Australian Shelduck £4, Barnacle Geese 45/- pair, Aurora

Waxbills 12/6 pair, 7 pairs beautiful Scaly Doves 17/6 pair, 1 pair Blue¬

winged Teal ^4. 1 pair Scarlet Macaws, 1 pair Bluish Finches 10/6, 2 rare

Crimson-shouldered Whydahs in colour £2 each, 3 rare Shaft-tailed not in

colour, 1 pair each Silver and Golden Pheasants. Silvers 20/- pair, Golden

35/- pair, 1 Lemon-crested Cockatoo 10 6, 9 Pekin Robins 2/6 each.


X acclimatized Blue-crowned Hanging Parrakeet 15/-, I ditto Salmon-

crested Cockatoo ^3, 1 ditto Leadbeater’s Cockatoo £2, 1 ditto Wandering

Tree Pie ^1. 1 ditto Hill Mynah ^x 10/-, 1 ditto Common Mynah xo/6, 2

Soldier Monkeys, 1 Mona Monkey, 1 Capuchin Monkey, 4 Vulturine Guinea

Fowl, 1 pair White-fronted Geese £1 10/-, 7 Violet Doves 40/- pair, 1 Barbary

Dove cock 4/-, i Green-winged Dove hen 6/-, few pairs Pintail Ducks 16/-

pair, r Blue-fronted Amazon says 20 words ^3, 1 hen Green Cardinal accli¬

matized 12/6, 1 pair Egyptian Geese £1 10/-, 1 rare Sharp-billed Toucan

£4, Rhamphastos carinatus , 2 Blue Tanagers 15/- each, 2 Tickell’s Thrushes

£1 each, 3 pairs Australian Crested Doves £1 pair, 3 pairs Rufina Doves

£1 5/- pair.


Due on or about May gth : 1 pair only Siberian Large White Cranes ^40,

x pair only Common Cranes £10 10/-, 12 pairs Blue Coots £2 pair, a few

pairs See-See Partridges, and another variety (name of which I do not

know until I see them), a few rare Finches from ihe Himalayan Mountains

(these latter, I believe, have not been brought over before), 3 pairs Bar-head

Geese, also a few Black-backed Geese and a few other varieties. Also due

from Australia beginni?ig of May: An assortment of Finches and Doves,

100 Rosella Parrakeets 20/- pair, 300 Rosy Cockatoos 6/6 each. Pennant's,

Kings, etc. 4 cock Pine Grosbeaks (P. enucleator) £1 5/-, 3 Scarlet Gros¬

beaks ( P. erythrinus) £1 5/-, pair Magpie Geese £4, Snow Goose £2 10/-.


Stock Always Changing.



