88 JARDIJFE'S PARROT. 



when flying about loose. I give it boiled Indian corn, hemp and 

 canary seed mixed, and sop. But I dare say it would be just as 

 happy with plain water as with the sop, for it eats very little of the 

 bread. They are, I think, to be strongly recommended as pets, and 

 would be an attractive bird to acclimatise. I am sorry to say that 

 mine is quite as unamiable to other Parrots, even of its own species, 

 as it is to human beings; but perhaps if it met another in a tree, 

 and not in a room, it might make friends. 



Since writing the above I have had another, but it did not survive 

 long. 



They seem to be difficult to acclimatise, and I have an idea that is 

 a characteristic of the Pceocephali. I would advise people to buy them 

 in summer, though the oue that did best arrived in January in a plain 

 deal box. Even if bought in summer it would be wise to keep them 

 in the kitchen at first, and harden them off by degrees. They are 

 worth twenty-five shillings each when imported. 



