60 SENEGAL PARROT. 



example of Dr. Puss, we have preferred to restrict to that under 

 consideration. 



The name of Senegal Parrot, or Parrakeet, is very often given to 

 the black-beaked African variety of the Ring-necked Parrakeet, Psit- 

 tacus torquahis, var. docilis, but erroneously so, in our opinion, as it 

 is much more appropriately bestowed upon the subject of the present 

 notice, which really belongs to that part of the ff dark' ; continent, 

 whence it is occasionally imported in considerable numbers via Havre 

 and Bordeaux: there is, at present, only one representative of this 

 species in the Gardens of the London Zoological Society, where, on 

 the whole, the Parrot race is very inadequately represented, and the 

 worst accommodated of all the animals belonging to their collection: 

 but now that attention has been called to the subject, let us hope 

 that the Society will exert itself to cause the speedy removal of an 

 approbrium that does much to mar the reputation they have justly 

 obtained in other branches of Natural History: it is true, as our 

 colleague has remarked, that the Zoological Society is not une Societe 

 d' Acclimatation; but nevertheless they, should do something to enhance 

 the comfort of the poor Parrots committed to their charge: they 

 have handsomely provided for the obscene apes and monkeys of their 

 collection, and more recently for the snakes and crocodiles, and it is 

 only fair that the Parrots should have their turn, and we sincerely hope 

 that, for the poor creatures' own sakes, it may come ere long. 



