An Easter Tour Among Members' Aviaries. 295 
The Loo-Choo Jay is another beautiful and also very 
rare species, and thoug-h perhaps, not so brilliant as the Cissa, 
is yet a strikingly beautiful bird— "body deep rufous - brown ; 
head, tail and flights rich purplish -blue, tail tipped with white 
and throat streaked with the same colour, is a fairly correct 
but sketchy description of them— but how greatly is their 
beauty intensified as they take to wing and expose the full 
area of their beautiful purple -blue flights; even at a fair 
distance is their striking colouration noticeable. They are 
smaller and more slender than the English Jay; ljut I cannot 
linger, as I have to note the contents of six other aviaries! 
No. 2. In this enclosure the shelter was very roomy 
and sub-divided for spx-ial pairs; also several birds, new 
arrivals, etc., were in cages. Here we noted, among others 
the following species: 
Chattering Lriiie.s {T-orivs garrulus) — a pair and their full u-rown 
young one ; Yellow -backed Lory {Lorius flaro-jMllintns}, Blue -streaked 
Lory (Eos reticulata), Purple-capped Lory (Lorius domicclla), f^uops 
Conures (Conurus mops), Red-collared (Tnchoglossus ruhrilorqucs) and 
Fcrsten's (T . forstcni) Lorikeets, White-fronted .A^mazon, (Chrysotis 
Icucccrphala), and a specimen of the well known Blue-fronted Amazon, 
in which the head and body plumage was mottled j-ellow, red and greeti. 
It will be noted that several of the above are quite 
rare, nearly all of them are gorgeous, and I must leave it to 
my readers to imagine the spectacle of a number of these 
gorgeously plumaged birds on the wing at once, or disposed 
on perches about the aviary, their brilliant i)lumage being 
literallj glorified in the play of sunlight. 
No. 3: Another large enclosure, one side of which was 
an ivy-covered wall, and planted in the flight were many 
evergreen shrubs. Here were gathei-ed together some two 
hundred or more birds, mostly the Small Ornamental Finches, 
many of which were nesting— I did not make a full list but 
noted among many others the following species: 
Finches : Parrot, Olive, Cuba, Bib, Fire-, Zebra, Bicheno's 
Ruficauda, Gouldian, Long-tailed Grass-, Masked Grass-, Spice, Sharp- 
tailed, Striat-ed, Chestnut-breasted and Pectoral, Grey and Green vSinging- . 
M.\XNIK1NS : Rufous-backed, Bronze-winged, Tri-colour, Bengal- 
ese, Black -headed, Yellow -rumped, etc. 
Waxhills : Grey, St.- Helena, Sydney, Avadavat, Violet-eared 
and Cordon Bleus . 
■Though so early in the year nearly all were in breed- 
