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The I'ra'aii. I'analccet. 
A young Uva'aii, hand i-eared, would a delightful pel. 
These parrakeets always seem lo me lo he iclative.s 
of the lovely New Zealand Parrakeet (C ijanorainphus iiora-- 
zvaland'uv); there is a cousinly resemblance in movemcnis and 
style, etc. 
The first cousin of the Llvtean— that i-;, Ihe H.>nied Parra- 
keet— must be more fascinating than the former. 
Bye-the-bye! Dealers would insist upon e;iliing the 
Uvgean, the Horned Parrakeet, which was misleading .until 
one saw them . 
[Mr. Willfoi'd's l)irds did not live very many vveeks 
and he does not care to make any remarks concerning them, 
save that lie regretted losing such rare, beautiful and inter- 
esting birds. — Editok.] 
Breeding of the Jacarini Finch. 
( 1 ulatinia jacurut i . } 
By R. SuGGiTT. 
These eliarniing little bii'ds in some ways )'emind }n(; 
of the Waxbills, partii'ularly in their restless activity, and 
the motion of their tails, but, on the other hand they show 
none of the atrection towards each other that the Waxbills do. 
With the sun shining on the blue-black body of the male, re- 
lieved by the pure white shoulder jjatch, he is, indeed, a beau- 
tiful little fellow The female is roughly a brown bird, 
streaked longitudinally on the breast with a darlvcr shade 
brown. Their tails appear to be loosly hinged, and this is 
l)ai ticularly noticeable when the birds are Hying, as the tail 
bobs up and down when they are taking their rather jerky 
flight. Habitat: Central and Southern America, to Brazil, 
Peru, ana Bolivia. 
There appears to be a great deal of variation in the 
plumage of males from different districts, and there is at 
at least one sub-species. The male of another pair from Trini- 
dad ill my possession has scarcely any white shoulder patches, 
these beuig represented by only a white tipped feather or two. 
Both my birds have been in England a considerable time. 
The cock is one of a fairly large consignment on the market 
