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sale either in Burmah or in the Mala}' Peninsula; but have come across it a

few times in the bird-market at Calcutta and at Bombay.


E. W. Harper.



THE SEX OF STANLEY PARRAKEETS.


Sir,— Having myself been a breeder of various kinds of Parrakeets

for twenty-five years, and Being anxious to breed the Stanleys, I will leave

members to judge whether I would have taken two similar Stanleys for a

pair, if Mr. Payne had told me (as he says he did) that there was as much

difference in the sexes of the Stanleys as in the Many Colours. This state¬

ment Mr. Payne made to me by post card when refusing to exchange one of

them after Mr. Seth-Smith had seen them and identified them as two cocks,

although promising to do so at time of purchase. I admit I did not apply

to them to exchange one of them for twelve months after purchase, but it

was as soon as I found I had two cocks instead of a pair.


Chari.es P. Arthur.



THE WELLINGTON ZOO.


Members will be interested to hear that a Zoological Gardens has been

established at Wellington, New Zealand—the first in that Colony—and that

Mr. A. E. L. Bertling, formerly Head Keeper at our Zoological Gardens, is

managing it. Mr. Bertling, whose success with the birds at Regent’s Park

attracted a good deal of attention, went out to New Zealand with the

Chamois presented to the Colony by the Emperor of Austria, and landed

them successfully. After this he was for a time Game Ranger to the New

Zealand Government, until appointed to his present office.— Ed.



CORRECTION.


The young Bartlett’s Bleeding-heart Pigeon represented in figure 6 in

the June number should have had its age stated as thirty days old, not

sixteen days.


Its age when drawn for the coloured plate was about six or eight

weeks.



