Some I'jXper'ioircs of Cockatoos. 
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had made a good recovery. Apparently she had only been 
offered liemp, canary, and oats, Avith fruit and bread, and there 
is not the slightest doubt that she would have starved to 
death rather than touch this wholesome and palatable diet on 
which some menil>ers of her race have thriven well. Eanksians 
are curious hiicls in this respect, and in buying new ones it 
is of vita! importance to enquire how they have been previously 
fed. Some will only toucli one seed and some another, but 
a mixture of hemp, sunflower, and peanuts--so indigestible 
to many Cockatoos when given in excess, is undoubtedly for 
them the most wliolesonie and .satisfactory diet whether they 
are kej*! in (dose confinement or at libicrty. The new male, 
whom the men christened " Henry," proved to l)elong to 
the AVestern race (C. naso). He was quite a small bird, 
smaller than Timmie, and had a ishort, rounded crest. Take 
Teddy, he was extrenuily tame and gentle with humans, Init 
like him unluckily, wholly indifferent to the female society of 
his own kind. He settled down at once in the aviary and 
seemed contented from the first. 
To he continued. 
♦ 
Birds In and About the Station (Bakloh, Punjab). 
By M.\J0K G. A. Pkrreau, F.Z.S. 
{Continued from Vol. II., N.S., page 339). 
MUSCICAPIDAE^FLYCATCHERS. 
The Flycatchers are well represented, there being no 
fewer than fourteen species observed. From the book one 
might expect to meet with two more, but on the other hand 
two of those observed were not expected so far North -West. 
From an avicultural point of view with a few exceptions they 
form a charming group. Many are of brilliant plumage and 
are well fitted for exhibition, becoming almost too steady 
to my mind. Except perhaps the Niltavas, all show to better 
advantage in the aviary. The White-throated Fantail is our 
only permanent resident; some are summer visitors, but most 
only pass through on their way higher up or lower down. 
Some of these last pass up very late in the spring and pass 
down very early in the autumn, thereby getting a very short 
breeding season and incidentally avoiding my trapping season. 
