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secure them, as far as possible, from the risk of infection, and to make 

 them as happy and comfortable as they can be made in captivity, in 

 order to tempt them to reproduce their kind in the aviary; although 

 natives of a warm country, they will stand the cold of our winters in 

 an unheated room indoors, but we have not ventured to test their en- 

 durance out of doors, although we are disposed to believe that they 

 would not, under such conditions, be more delicate than many of their 

 compatriots. 



With regard to the remark on page 2 of the first number of Parrots 

 in Captivity, that "Like all the Parrot tribe, with one or two doubtful 

 exceptions, the nesting place of GoihVs Cockatoos is in the hollow of 

 some dead branch", our esteemed correspondent, Mme. Cassirer, of 

 Paris, writes: "Why 'doubtful'? Are the accounts of the nest built 

 of sticks of the Quaker Parrot (Bolborkynchus monachus drier eicollis), 

 given by Azara, Darwin, Oastlenau, and Burmeister, and in captivity 

 in South America by Azara, by Schmidt in Europe, by Dr. Brehm, 

 and Miilzel in the Zoological Gardens of Berlin — not sufficient to con- 

 vince you? Do you not believe the accounts of the nests of the Peach- 

 faced Love-birds (Agapornis roseicollis) given both by Drs. Brehm and 

 Euss, and also of the Grey-headed Love-bird?" We are convinced: 

 and cry ' Peccavimus.' 



