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quently dear, £5 or £6 apiece being the price demanded for them by 

 the dealers; though occasionally they may be picked up for a much 

 less sum: one fine specimen I. bought for a sovereign, and gave thirty 

 shillings for another, but these are instances of good luck that are not 

 to be met with every day, for even quite young individuals are readily 

 disposed of for £3 each, and on the continent they are even more scarce 

 than in England, and proportionately dearer. 



Mr. Joseph Abrahams, with whom we have dealt for years, is seldom 

 without one or two of these charming birds in his shop; and even if 

 he has not got them in stock, is able to procure them for connoisseurs, 

 owing to his having correspondents and collectors in every part of the 

 world, who are constantly sending him rare birds of every kind. 



