THE



89



Avicultural Magazine,


BEING THE JOURNAL OF THE


AVICULTURAL SOCIETY.



Third Series .— Vol. V. — No. 3 .—All rights reserved. JANUARY, 1914.



MY SUNBIRDS' AVIARY.


By A Lover of Birds in France.


My collection of Sun and Sugar Birds at present consists of

the following species, mostly in pairs, though in some cases I have

several cocks to one hen.


Yellow-winged Sugar-bird ( Coereba cyanea).


Purple Sugar-bird ( Coereba ccerulea). Two pairs.


Black-legged Pale Blue Sugar-bird ( Dcicnis nigripes).


Indian White Eyes ( Zosterops palpebrosus) . One pair.


Amethyst-rumped Sunbird ( Ginnyris zeylonica). Two pairs.


Purple Sunbird ( Arachnechthra asiatica).


Malachite Sunbird ( Nectarinia famosa). Two pairs.


Amethyst Sunbird ( Ginnyris amethystinns ).


Lesser Double-collared Sunbird ( Ginnyris chalybcsus). Four

cocks, 1 hen.


Greater Double-collared Sunbird ( Ginnyris afer). Two pairs.


Red Sunbird ( CEthopyga seherice).


Scarlet-chested or Bifasciated Sunbird ( Ginnyris mariquensis).


White-breasted Sunbird ( Ginnyris leucogaster or Talatala).


The great majority of these birds live in a large aviary—

roughly 14 feet long and about 10 feet high—all wire, and resting on a

zinc floor beneath wdiich there are two thicknesses of linoleum, then

the parquet, this being an indoor arrangement, to which a whole

fair-sized room has been devoted. Another part of the same room

is filled by a similar though slightly smaller aviary, which is occupied

by my collection of rare Waxbills and finches; then I have a few



