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tionecl. It only contained four entries: Mrs. McLean Morrison

taking first prize with a good pair of Mealy Bosellas. Mr. Frostick

second with a nice King Parrakeet ; Mr. Frost third with a Barnard,

and Mr. A. J. Shipton fourth with a Yellow*-collared Parrakeet.


Only two entries were forthcoming' for the last class, which

was for the rarer Grass Parrakeets, Polytelis, and so forth. They

were both valuable exhibits, a pair of Queen Alexandra’s Parrakeets

sent by Miss Lydia Clare and a Bourke’s Parrakeet by Miss Alfreda

Smyth. They took first and second prizes respectively.


D. Seth-Smith.



ENGLISH NAMES FOR THE PARROTS.


By Dr. E. HOPKINSON.


(■Continued from page 47.)


CONURE, any member of the genus Conuvus and its allies, Cyaolyseus,

Pyrrhura, etc., all American. The following are English names

which have been given to different species :


AZTEC CONURE.


Black-Faced Conure, see NANDAY.


Black-Headed Conure.


BLUE-CROWNED C.


Blue-Naped Conure.


Blue-Vented C.


BLUE-WINGED C.


Brown-Cheeked C.


BROWN-EARED C.


BROWN-THROATED C.


CACTUS C.


CAROLINA C.


CHILIAN C.


CUBAN C.


DWARF C.


Emerald C.


GOLDEN C.


GOLDEN-CROWNED C,


GREEN C.


Jendaya C.


Lineolated Conure, a Bolborhynchus, not a true Conure.


LUCIAN’S CONURE.


MEXICAN C.



