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/ islts !(/ Mciiil'crs' Az'iarlcs. 
a general series of I'loccidac. I'liiigillidac. Sugar-birds, Fruit- 
suckers, etc., but this is a risk 1 should not care to take, owiny 
to the danger of a dispkiy of temper when no one was at hand to 
prevent their doing damage. This pair of birds slept every 
night in a coco-ni;t husk. 
Mrs. Burgess' specimen was in line jjlnmage and in high 
fettle generally. 
My birds always had access to ripe fruit, milk sop, live 
insects and insectile mixture, only taking of the latter sparingly 
and all the other items of the menu freely. 
According to Jerdon and Blyth it is a noisy bird on its 
native heath, and its peculiar call has been syllabilized by Mr. 
Blyth as kuruwuk, kuruzvuk, kiiruwuk . It hops actively about 
the branches and lives entirely on fruit. 
D cscnptiv)! : Green above, glossed with a coppery sheen, 
grass-green below; forehead, hind crown, and a spot on each 
side of the fore-neck rich crimson ; band across the crown, con- 
tinued backward as an upper supercilium black; cheek, ear- 
coverts, moustache, throat, and narrow lower supercilium 
verditer-blue. Bill greenish-yellow at base, black at tip; iris 
ruddy-hazel; legs greenish-ashy. Length 91/^ins., of which the 
tail measures 3ins. 
Pied Barbet {PogoiiorhyiicJius IciicoDiclas) : This is 
quite a small and pleasing species and reminds one at once of the 
Indian Coppersmith Barbet (Xaiitliolocnia hacmacc phala), but 
Afrs. Burgess' pair showed scarcely any red. being quite young 
birds. 
Descfiption : "General colour above black, pencilled with yellow; 
" forehead deep crimson; a stripe extends from the nostril to the back of 
" the head; the first part of this is yellow, the last part white; a broad white 
" line extends from the corner of the bill down the side of the throat; chin 
" and gorget black; belly dirty white, mixed with grey; wing-secondaries 
"and tail-feathers margined with yellow; bill dark-brownish horn-colour; 
" feet and toes slaty-brown; iris amber-brown. Length 6ins., of which 
" the tail measures 2ins.'' L. and S. Birds of Africa. 
Ji'Ud Life : It is of solitary habits, being mostly met 
with singly, never more than one pair seen together, and that 
but seldom. It feeds on fruit, berries, and insects. They nest 
in holes in trees, but do not make the holes. The eggs are both 
plain and spotted. Mr. Atmore writes : 
" I know of a tame one which roamed about unconfined. It ate 
" meat, bread, sugar, corn, in fact anything — appeared very much attached 
