List of Plates.



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LIST OF PLATES.



* Ihe Asterisk denotes a Coloured Plate.


TO FACE PAGE


Female Wattled Crane and Male Canadian Crane, and Hybrid


Chick .. .. . . .. .. .. . . 23


Ring-necked Teal [Nettium torquatuni) .. . 36


*The Fijian Parrot Finch ( Erythrura pealei ) .. .. .. 49


The Fiji Tory {Calliptilus soli tar ms) .. .. .. .. 52


Tichodroma mili aria, Irene turcosa .. .. j g_


Halcyon smymensis, Dineinellia dinemelli I


A Roccolo in Italy .» .. .. .. .. .. 81


Tower of Roccolo .. .. . . ' .. .. .. 84


Laughing Kingfishers and their Aviary .. . 90


The Secretary Bird {Serpen tar ins secretarius) .. . 105


The Melba Finch (Pytelia melba) .. .. I Q


The White Eyebrowed Wood Swallow (Artamns superciliosus) !


* Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon (,Sphenocercus sphenurus) .. . . 129


Blue-rumped Parrakeets {Psittinus incertus) .. . 139


Outside of Mr. Page’s Aviary.. ) j


Nest of Indian White-eye .. 1


[This plate wilt be found facing p. 150).


Satyra Tragopan [Ceiiornis satyr) .. .. .. .. 153


Peacock Pheasant in full display


African Tantalus {Pseudotantalus ibis) .. .. . 170


*Hunstein’s Bird of Paradise {Diphyllodes hunsteini) .. 1S1


Black-necked Swan {Cygnus melanocoiyphus) and young .. 198


Courtship of the Herring Gull .. .. .. .. 209


Owen’s Apteryx on a Reeves Pheasant’s Nest . . .. 231


*Tlie Amherst Pheasant in Display .. .. .. 237


Side View of Aviary showing feeding box . . . . .. 249


*Tlie Rock Peplar Parrakeet {Polytelis melanura) .. 265


Australian Bee-eaters ( Me>ops ornatus) at the Zoological Gardens 286

Nest and Eggs of the Black Redstart . . . . .. ., 293


The Whooping Crane (Grus americana) .. .. .. 312


^American Nonpareil Bunting (Cyanospiza ciris) and Pintailed


Nonpareil {Erythrura prasina) .. .. .. .. 325


Nest and Eggs of the Crested Lark .. .. .. .. 344


Demoiselle Cranes and young .. . . . . .. . . 344


Canadian and Wattled Cranes, with Hybrid young .. .. 346



