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displaying- to the lien in the next cug'e, l)obbiiig his head and 
spreading hirf tail and indulg-ing from time to time in a peculiar 
and noi wholly unnielodious song— a kind of " coia, coia, cola, 
coia," rapidly rejjeated and lasting for several seconds at a 
time. So Henry departed and the Zoo cock arrived in his 
place. Poor Henry. I have always regretted him and if he 
had only treated Teddy decently, not even the vision of a 
nest of young Banksians Avould ever have induced me to give 
him up. However, he is still alive and seems happy in his 
new surroundings, the constant supply of human visitors 
apparently compensating for his loss of freedom. Anyone 
stopping to pass the time of day with him will generally be 
greeted with a song and a most energetic display. 
But if Henry was contented with the change, it was 
far otlierwise with the Zoo cock. The short railway journey 
and the strangeness of his new home upset him to a degree 
I should not have believed possible and for days he refused 
all food and uttered loud grating screams of fear when anyone 
approached his cage. It was only by tempting his appetite 
with Brazil nuts that he was ultimately induced to eat anytfiing 
and it was many weeks before he appeared to have become 
reconciled to the loss of the Parrot House and the familiar 
sound of its inmates' mellow voices. It was about the middle 
of October that Fate began her final attack on my ill-fated 
flock. One afternoon the young hen was noticed to he weak 
and ailing and to have lost the use of her wing's. I thought 
that she might have caught a cold and liopetl lo find her 
better after a night in a warm room. But the following day 
she was much worse, a watery liuid ran from the sides of her 
beak, and in a few hours she was dead. Post mortem examina- 
tion proved her to be suffering badly from tuberculosis, which 
I think she contracted while in the same aviary with an old 
Roseate Cockatoo, wliic-h was eventually found to be badly 
infected with this disease. 
(To be continued). 
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An Easter Tour Among Members' Aviaries. 
By Wkslev T. Page, V.Z.S., Etc. 
{Continued from page 254). 
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