20 BARNARD'S PARRAKEET. 



desirable consummation is not likely to be reached, and now that avarists 

 have lost one of their best friends, by the untimely death of Mr. 

 A. H. Jamrach, who did so much to popularise the fancy for foreign birds, 

 by bringing down the almost prohibitive prices of other dealers to 

 more reasonable figures, as well as by the importation of new species 

 and varieties, the solution of this and kindred problems is further off 

 than ever. 



Barnard's Parrakeet is also occasionally called the Falcon-breasted 

 Parrakeet, and its designation of Bulla Bulla has also been applied to 

 the Yellow-collared Broadtail, which is known to the colonists of 

 Western Australia by the name of " Twenty-eight ; ' Parrot, from the 

 fancied resemblance of its cry to those words. 



