All rights reserved.'] October, 1909. 
BIRD NOTES: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 
flutbcr 1Rote5 on tbc lBlach*=\\nnosi) Xoiv>. 
(^Eos cyaitogcnys). 
By Walter Goodfellow. 
Having had six living examples of this Lory in m}'^ 
possession at different times, I may perhaps be able to add a 
few fnrther particnlars of interest about their habits in captivity 
and in a wild state, 
Tile first living example I ever saw was in Makassar iu 
1903. A Dutch official there had one fastened by its leg in the 
usual wa\'- to a swing on his verandah, along with Cockatoos and 
various other Lories. The house stood a good distance back 
from the road, but in passing I could just see enough of the bird 
through tlie shrubs to know that it was a species new to me. 
Many times I purposely passed that way, always hoping to see 
someone about from whom 1 could ask permission to go in and 
view the birds closer. As many daj's passed without success, 
and my visit was drawing to an end, I went at last boldly up to 
the house and found onh^ native servants at home, who plainly 
resented my intrusion, and appeared to think I had come to 
carry off the birds during their owner's absence. However, I 
had time to identify the one I most wanted to see, and had even 
dared to hope I might have a chance of purchasing. 
From the Celebes I went to the Moluccas, and on the island 
of Ternate I came across another of these birds hanging under 
the eaves of a native's house. This one became mine without an3^ 
further to do. Later on, when it became known that I wanted to 
buy Lories, I think every native who owned any brought them 
along to me, and out of all these I secured two more Black- 
winged ones : so possibly my three were all that were in Ternate 
at that time. These I kept for five months before they were 
sent home to England by a man from Sydney, but, along with 
