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attempt to leave the home-pond (Baker, 1908). The same writer tells how they soon 

 learn to come when called, and how they may be fed out of the hand, becoming so 

 confiding that even strangers do not worry them. They are said to whistle even 

 when walking and swimming, and when called they habitually whistle in reply. 

 Whether this is the real flocking-whistle, or a modified form developed in confine- 

 ment, or perhaps only a feeding-note, I cannot say. 



So far as I know there are no recorded instances of the species having bred in parks 

 or gardens in Europe or America, but they breed freely in such places if located 

 within the regions where the birds are indigenous, particularly if allowed their full 

 wings. Hume and Marshall (1879) tell of their settling down in the public gardens 

 at Singapore and nesting there. 



In New York the price paid for these birds by the Zoological Society was about 

 $8.00 each before the War (Crandall, in lift.) but they are not so common in collec- 

 tions as the Fulvous or the White-faced species. Two specimens lived eight and 

 nine years respectively. 



