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Correspondence, Notes, etc.



The two examples now in the Zoological Society’s collection which,

I regret to say, are both males, certainly give the choice to blue, as, a few

days back, I cut up a small quantity of bright-coloured cloth, consisting of

red, pink, and two shades of blue, which I scattered round the bower in

the outdoor compartment of their aviary; but, on visiting the place shortly

after, I discovered that they had removed the whole of the blue strips to

a bower they were constructing in the interior compartment of their

domicile, whilst the red and pink remained outside.


Is there any connection between their preference for blue and the

brilliant blue of their eyes, which is a colour seldom found in birds or

mammals except as a sport or in a few domestic species ?


A. E. L. BiCRTiylNG.



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