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This incident made me rather chary of keeping her loose, 
hut on tlie other hand, if I did not, she would never he strong on 
the wing and so useless, as far as hunting with her was concerned, 
so I decided to risk her going ofiF altogether. The next time she 
went off, she was away six whole days and I had given her up for 
lost, but the seventli morning found her back, considerably 
thinner than when she went and needing no call to bring her up 
to the lure at sight. 
Since then .she has never been awaj' for more than a night 
and stranger than all, the parents, which are frequently about 
here, go for lier on every possible occasion. Whether they 
consider the bells uncanny or remember the charge of shot they 
got, I do not know, but certain it is, that tliere is no lost love 
between them now. 
She is perfectly confiding and lets me do anything I like 
to her, from stroking her, to putting my arm round her and 
picking her up bodily. Though quite friendly with my dogs, she 
knows a strange one at once and does not hesitate to make for it. 
Fear of the unknown, does not seem to enter into her 
composition at all and from the day she was taken from the nest, 
when annoyed, she has always taken the aggressive and never 
attempted to get away from man. 
Yet an eagle's nest may be robbed with impunity and 
the parents will not even attempt 10 defend, what a little shrike 
or drongo would almost give its life to save. 
BieeDtiiG of ipasserme ipairaf^ects ant) 
lBlacks=cheeke^ XovebiiOs. 
By Haywakd W. Mathias. 
Passerine Parkakkets {Psiltacula passerind). 
My acquaintance with this specie.s — which is popularly 
known as the Blue-winged Lovebird — dates from November of 
last year, when I purchased four pairs of newly-imported birds. 
Death claimed its usual winter toll of newly-imported stock, but 
in the vSpring of 1909 I found myself with a very healthy pair 
(the hen especially strong and vigorous) and two or three odd 
birds ; the latter I sold as opportunity offered. 
