All Rights Reserved. May, 1914. 
BIRD NOTES: 
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JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB 
The Speckled Conure. 
{Conurus ciiops). 
By Di;. L. Lovell-Keays. 
This Parrakeet is perhaps o!io of the latest additions 
to the already large muiibor of roimros known to aviculture. 
They apparently inhabit. some uninhabited islands off the Mona 
Islands near Porto Rico oi' St. Domingo. The usual English 
name is the Speckled Conure, Init speaking for myself I should 
call them the Crimson -flanked Coiuirt^ as l)eing more descrip- 
tive and certainly more euplionious. I was fortunate enough 
to obtain an adult, and I l>elieve true pair from Mr. Cross, 
last March, and although a little rough and Avith one wing 
clipped, the> came to hand in very fair health and condition. 
They have caused no anxiety as to their health since, and 
from being timid wild birds have steadied down nicely. In 
general demeanour they are distinctly thoughtful and con- 
templative, thinking wisely and incessantly to while away the 
lagging hour's. One feels that the words " tcmpns fugifhave 
no meaning for them except in a satirical sort of way. They 
remind me of the old almshouse inhabitant, who on being 
asked how he amused himself all day, said, " Sometimes T sits 
and thinks, and at others (for a change) I just sits." Ap- 
parently they do have moments either of exaltation or exacer- 
bation, for I hear them sometimes expostulating at the very 
top of their voices, but when I appear a settled calm per- 
vade.-; the bird-room, and they return to their owl-like 
thinking. 
The Gexeral Colouration of the birds is well .shown 
in Mr. Goodchild's excellent plate, and is a rather pleasing 
soft, olive -green, with that peculiar kind of polish to the 
feathers, rather characteristic of the Parrot family, so strongly 
suggestive of a much ironed top-hat. The bird is quite 
