All right. reserved. Novkmrior, 1914. 
BIRD NOTES: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB 
The Breeding of All-Green Parrakeets (Broto- 
gerystirica) and CactUS ConureS (Coniiriis cactorum). 
By Dr. L. Lovkll-Keats, F.Z.S. 
As far as I am awavo this l.o jutiful, if somcwliat linino- 
g^eneously coloured Parrakeet, lias not previously been bred in 
captivity in Great Britain, and I am therefore giving- a shoi1 
account of the event. My experience is that Parrakeets are 
easy to breed, and do not appear to mind overcrowding, or 
the presence of near I'elatives nearly as much as is jiopularly 
supposed. But Parrakeets ai'e all spiteful, most of 
them wickedly so, and yet people will tell you they 
have kept a pair of Rosellas with Pinches and other 
small birds. But the more you deal with Parrakeets 
the less you learn to trust them. I have even happened on 
a spitefully inclined Cockatiel, the Parrakeet that most people 
would dub harmless and inoffensive. If I may be forgiven 
for digressing I may say that in a very mivcnl series I have 
found Black-cheeked Lovebirds absolutely harmless and in- 
ofl'ensive. All the same I would not trust a strange Black- 
cheek any more than I would any other Parrakeet. If one 
can get a large -sized Parrakeet that won't stand being bullied, 
and yet is not a bad bully itself, it is a good plan to have one 
in a mi.xed series to act as a jiolieeman. In a AVeavers' 
aviarj- I have all sorts of bullies yet the number of disasters 
has been very small. But we are forgetting our .All-Green 
Parrakeets. I bought this pair from Mr. Jami'ach this spring 
and picked them out myself. Out of about eiglit or nine 
I only saw one certain hen, and unfortunately her wings were 
clipped. However, I turned them out into my new Parrakeet 
aviarj with a good shelter and fair llight. They soon set- 
tled down and in about a fortnight's time made full use of 
a nesting barrel in the most out of the way corner of the inner 
