S'dlioiiiil Shdir —Foiriijii SccIkhi 
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■'nest toLicllicr ill liannoiiy. and i)erluii)s like Hiulj-crigais do so luoro 
"readily. Tliuy ought to thrive well in England so far as climate is con- 
■■ corned. Dui ing February and March I kept a record of the temperature 
"at my cam]) on A\>o. and at six o'clock in the morning I often found it as 
" low as iW deg. I'^ah.. while the highest mid-day temperature in the shade 
" was (W deg. This was an isolated part for it more often reached only 
"")(■) deg. and deg. Fall. This was the dry season during the N.E. mon- 
" soon, but ill .July and August the tenii)erature would be somewhat 
" higher."" 
"At night I found the [jish-lish* all slei)t together, crowded into one 
" corner at the bottom of the cage, with their heads to the wall. I often 
"heard little S(iuabbles going on in the night as one pi-obably tried to get a 
" warmer spot and pushed others out. Xo doubt in their wild state they 
" sleep in this manner in the holes of trees for the sake of mutual warmth 
"during the cold nights in the high altitudes which they inhabit." 
Their demeanour in cage life exactly corresponds with the 
above description. A brief description is called for, especially as 
the pair exhibited were young birds, and had neither the full 
depth of colour, and, also the red areas on head, face and throat, 
were somewhat restricted to what they will be later. A rough and 
ready description would be the head plumage of a Varied, and the 
body plumage of a Scaly-breasted Lorikeet. The body colouring- 
is green, with the feathers of the under-surface yellow, margined 
with green, imparting a beautiful scaled appearance ; the forehead, 
throat, and streak under the eye and across nape of the neck, 
crimson ; legs and feet, bluish ; beak, coral-red with dark yellow 
edges. Their principal food when wild is honey, and in capitivity 
milk-sop and ripe fruit must form the bulk of their diet. In 1907 
Mrs. Johnstone successfully bred this species in her aviaries at 
Groomsbridge, fully rearing two young birds. The old birds 
fed on spray millet, sweetened bread and milk ; half an orange 
also being consumed daily. Mrs. Johnstone found them to be 
perfectly hardy. 
Though not yet having their full beauty of plumage, Mr. 
Millsum's pair of birds were a beautiful and rare exhibit, and well 
worth the award (2nd prize) they won. A most interesting species 
for aviculturists. 
Stella Lory {Gharmosyna stellce) : — This beautiful 
species, of which a fine male was exhibited by Mr. Millsum, has for 
several years graced the aviaries at Hoddom Castle of our esteemed 
* Native Name. 
