m 



chimney-sweepers ia London ou May-day) were 

 placect m side of tlimr caps, as a de- 

 coration* TlieCliiiit'si^ do not venerate this bird, 



ns was first supposed, aud wliitdi may have caused 

 Teniminck to bestow upon it the specific nauiu of 

 itenm'atus ; but it is superstitiously believed that 

 the blood of tltl^ bird is possessed t>f ^IsbnoUft 

 properties, and that the mandarins, wljcu in ex- 

 pectation of losing tlieir rank, and i»eiii<2,' sud- 

 denly ]>ut to death ijy order of tlie emperor, 

 preserve some of it, iu a dried state, upon a 

 lit^it^fe^^^ej^ m mf^iTOg wliic!) ^II 4own 

 i^pite. 1 h^acA Hb^ smk !&t tliis 

 bird, ia ihe aviary, utter a very sweet, uiild, 

 and harmonious, whistling note, as ir strutted 

 about proudly, arrayed in its elegant plumage j 

 occasionally approach iug near tji0 iirtce^ df its 

 ]idbit4li(iii^ to Ut 1k& ^^filtoi^ nofdee ^ adoiffe 

 liim. The ends of the longest feathers of tlie tail 

 in the living s})eeiineu were In'oken, although iu 

 tliis place of coiiHuemeut there is much extent 

 for liis movements ; but the feathers are too loug 



&vtt io eiEpect tltto to be pm^pi?"^ -p^^fect in 



any eonfim?d place. 



iMr. Beale first succeeded in jn nnn iug a li\ ing 

 ujah; specimen oF tliis elegant \iird iu ls{}s, and 

 ki'pt it in a healthy state ibr thirteen years. Alter 

 its tieatli, lie *«^ea\^ttted to procure otlicrs, but 



