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3EIMG THE JOURNAL Or THE


AVICULTURAL SOCI ETY.



Third Serit 1 — VOL. III. — N O 10.— AHri-shit merged.



August. 1912



ROCK PEP LAR PARRAKEETS.


By Miss Peddie Waddell.


I have received your note asking me to send some account

of my pair of Rock Pepiar Parrakeets. I am very pleased to

hear they are to be in the Magazine soon, but really I do not

know very well what to write about them.


I got them from Mr. Hamiyn about four years ago when

they were both in immature plumage, the only difference in the

cock bird being his larger size and his longer tail, but gradually

as year by year they moulted, the cock bird became more and

more yellow, until last year he really was perfect, and when I

exhibited the pair at the Scottish National Show in December I

was more than disappointed to find that they had only gained

second prize. They made splendid show birds, as they were

really very tame and did not mind 'oeing in a small cage.

Usually I kept them in as big a cage as f could — 6ft. high by

3ft. square — and they seemed very happy. They had the usual

Parrakeet seed with green food when I had any.


This spring I noticed that the hen was a great deal in the

nest box and that the cock was constantly feeding her. but of

course, in the limited accommodation I could give them, it was

boneless to exnect any results, so when M:ss blare at V.bmoledon

wrote asking me if I would part with them. I almost considered

it a duty to let them go. where, with the fine avtartes she has,

there was every chance that they would nest successfully, f low,

since Australian Parrakeets are so scarce, I think aviculturists

should do all they can to assist the breeding or these rarer



