32 SLENDER-BILLED GOGKATOO. 



to him, and it is wished that he should reproduce his kind, which, so 

 far as we can learn, he has never yet done in captivity. 



"N'e'veillez pas le chat qui dort": is a good old French proverb, 

 which has its equivalent in our English saying "Let sleeping dogs 

 lie," and we would commend both to the consideration of those of our 

 readers who are possessed of pet Parrots, Macaws, or Cockatoos; never 

 give your birds any stimulating food, you will excite them if you do, 

 and finding no legitimate outcome for their feelings, they will, literally, 

 turn to and rend themselves to pieces, plucking out every feather on 

 their bodies they can reach, and leaving themselves as bare as Plato's 

 "biped", of which we remember having read. 



