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issue (p. 33; and described concisely by our esteemed Editor, so that I 
need not describe tbeir colouration, tliey were, however, in faultless 
condition. The Red-fronted Lories* were ^:^<)t the pair exhibited by 
Mr. Millsum at the Horticultural Hall, but a comparatively recent 
acquisition, and were very fine. 
Of other Parrakeets there were pairs of Many-colours, and Plum- 
headed, an odd Mealy Rosella, a Lesser Patagonian Conure (this bird 
was very tame and interesting) ; a young Crimson-wing and a pair of 
All-green Conures {Conurus leiicophthahnas), an interesting species and 
by no means common— a brief description may be of general interest : 
Pliunage green, lighter on the underparts, bend of wing red, quills 
and under tail-coverts golden-olive, naked skin round eyes white, bill 
yellowish flesh-colour, legs and feet dusky. Total length 13|^ inches, 
of which the tail measures 6^. Habitat : The Amazon Valley, Guiana, 
Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. 
There were two species I should have liked to identify, if I had 
not been engaged drawing the more pronounced and beautiful types 
of birds ; one was a Parrot, which we both believed to be a Pionus, 
but which was probably immature at the time i saw it. and the other 
birds were Starlings, which shared an outdoor aviary (one of those 
depicted in Bird Notes in a former volume) with a Yellow Hangnest, 
a Palm Tauager, a pair of White-winged Jamaican Doves, a pair of 
charming Violet-necked Doves (also from Jamaica) and last but not 
least, a male Golden Pheasant. Of the larger birds of the Order 
Psittaci, there were only a few besides the Ceram or Yellow-backed 
Lories already mentioned ; one of the most interesting being the pair 
of Purple-capped Lories {Lorius domicella), while the most 
unusual, to most people's minds, would be the pair of Wester- 
mann's Eclectus, and the rarest probably the solitary specimen of 
Everett's Parrot (TuHygnalhus everetti). The Eclectus is a curious 
bird— like others of its genus, on account of the remarkable difference 
in the colouration of the sexes the male being a grass-green for the 
most part and the female a deep rich chocolate-crimson. Apart from 
their striking colours, they do ne t appear to me to be at all interesting 
birds, and I remember some years ago when making a coloured draw- 
ing to appear in the " Proceedings " of the Zoological Society, that 
one of these birds retired to the further corners of its cage and looked 
unutterable things at me as I intently looked at it to paint its portrait. 
I have not attempted to enumerate all the species in this fine 
and varied collection, nor yet to number the individuals, as there were 
* bee frontispiece Vol. viii. December issne. 
