2 g4 Correspondence.


accord to its cage, quite restored and lived happily for some time

after.


I am left to the conclusion that a bird’s preference for

liberty or food is very much a matter of individual taste, and

that it is impossible to say all birds prefer comfortable captivity.


F. G. Dutton.



CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES, ETC.



BREEDING OF THE STANLEY PARRAKEET.


(PI a tycei cus icterotis).


Sir, —In the beginning of June, after one of my hen Stanlej’s had

been for some time in a log nest, I distinctly heard the cry of a young bird

when the mother returned from a forage at seed pan, grass seeds, apple,

etc. After a fortnight I looked in the nest box, and saw that there was one

nice young one beginning to feather, and one addled egg.


On the 6tli of July the young bird was all but ready to leave the nest,

and anticipating this with tremblings as to whether it would dash against

the wire meshing, or something of the kind equally prolific of disaster, I

took him out and put him in a cage, through the rather wide bars of which

the mother fed him.


Isay “him,” because the bird has a bright patch of red above the

nostrils, and is decidedly reddish on the lower parts. A fine young bird.


The male Parrakeet never paid the slightest attention to his mate;

never fed her when she left the nest to hurriedly obtain what she could in

a limited time ; never seemed to recognize his one and only child as any¬

thing to do with him.


But now his son and heir has come of age, he appears to be more

sociable with his wife.


Being youngish birds, it is probable that the first clutch of eggs

would be a small one. I hope that next time there will be more.


Hubert D. Asteey.


Sir, —You will be interested to know I have some young Stanley

Parrakeets just about to leave the nest.


Have Stanleys been bred in England previously ?


I have some interesting hybrids, also between cock King Parrakeet

and hen Barraband Parrakeet, ready to leave the nest.


July 5 Ih, 1908. Wm. R. Fasey.



THE SHOEBILL.


Sir,—I n the Avicullural Magazine for May 190S there was an article

on the Shoebill, written by me, in which several misprints occurred which



