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the neighbouring ishuuls. I^lscy observed it more in the West, 
near the River Victoria. Risenberg reports that it frequents 
the soutli coast of New (luinea, Init Innsch, in quoting Rosen- 
berg, declares that his assertion needs conhrniation. 
Tlie natives of the Cobourg peninsula particularly love 
these beautiful parrots and massacre them wholesale in order 
to make head-dresses for their clipped heads. Do not be too 
indignant: is our native fauna treated much better? And do 
not the feathers, with which the women adorn their hats, cost 
the life of a much greater number of innocent victims? 
The Loris a collier rouge live in great flocks, frequenting 
the highest trees, the flowers and fruits of which form their 
chief food. The most recent details, which are known about 
their maimers, are given by D. le Souef, the head of the Zoolog- 
ical Society of X'ictoria (Australia) in the English review Ibis. 
" These birds," he writes, " are very numerous in the 
north-west district, bordering on the coast; they are very noisy, 
generally flying in flocks and uttering piercing cries during 
their flight; they feed on the honey from difl'erent trees and 
flowery shrubs. They nest in the hollow branches of the 
Eucalyptus at various distances from the entrance. The eggs 
are stretched out and are slightly smaller at one end, of a dull 
white speckled with brown. December and January seem to be 
the chief season of their nidification." 
The brown spots, with which the eggs are covered, are 
according to Monsieur Le Souef, certainly due to the vegetable 
matter, which is at the bottom of the hollow branches, in 
decomposition. 
Importation and Acclim.atization : On July 26th, 1900, 
the London Zoological ( jardens received for the first time four 
parrots of this species ; in all probability these were the first 
living birds imported into Europe. During the following years 
they were very rare. In 1907 the Berlin Zoological Gardens in 
its turn exhibited some in its aviaries. Mr. Brook, who has 
specialised in the study of this species of psittacides in captivity, 
wrote in Bird Notes 1916, " I obtained, nine or ten years ago, 
two of these birds, which were great rarities at that time." 
They laid eggs in 1908; the eggs, unfortunately barren, could 
not hatch, and it was the London Zoological Gardens, which, 
two years later, in one of the large cages of the Parrot House, 
