Suvte Expe/ieuacti of (Joclcatoos. 
rid him. After some weeks I g-ave the young- hen her liberty 
and was agreeably suriirised when she g-ave no trouljle and 
soon i'oUowod [Toby to the feeding- tray. She cstayed well diu-ing 
the course of her brief career, and of the three females it was 
for her., if any, that Teddy showed a ipreiference, possibly 
because she did not annoy him witli unmaidenly attention.Sy 
like Toby or drive him spitefully from the food as Timmie 
was inclined to do. 
Lastly, the young cock was given his liberty. As 
there were already five of his kind at large, including his 
late cage companion, I hoped to have little bother with him, 
but sad to relate he most grievously disaj^pointed me by 
Hying clear away, and vanishing for ever! I never learned 
his fate. He was a serious loss as he was the only one of my 
three cocks fi-om which there seemed a reasonable chance 
of breeding and his departure marked the turning point in 
the success of my e.'cpcriment and the beginning of a long 
series of misfortunes. 
The next tiouble I had aro e out of the increasing 
liostility which Henry began to disi)lay for Teddy. Both 
birds being extremely tame and sociable, coveted the perch 
on the window-sill outside tlic room in which the stableman 
and gai'deners had their meals. Had Teddy asserted himself 
from the beginning, there would have been no trouble, but 
by constantly giving way to his smaller comrade, he encour- 
aged the latter to take increasing liberties until from being 
at first merely neutral, he soon became actively hostile, driving 
Teddy savagely from his favourite post whenever he at- 
iempteil to go near it, and at times chasing Jam round and 
round the iRiildings and refusing to allow him to settle any- 
where within sight. His persecution of my old pet at length 
became so continuous that very reluctantly— for in himself 
h(! was a charming bird— I determhied to part witli him. I 
had long- looked with covetous eyes at tlie line cock Banksian 
at the Zoological gardens, and was more than satisfied when 
Mr. Seth iSmith kindly agreed to send him to me in exchange 
for Henry. In spite of ilie hundreds of people he had seen 
l)assing his cage, the Zoo cock had developed no inordinatc( 
aifection for the human race, but had remained timid and 
unsociable Ihi'oughout. On the otlicr hand he was continually 
