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kviary a pair of Varied Lorikeets (Fiiloselera versicolor) for the 
past four years, and that their condition could not be possibly 
surpassed Acidity of the stomach has never affected 
the occupants of my cages and aviaries, but I have always, at 
intervals, given a little MeUin's Food or Scott's emulsion in the 
milksop, and for an ailing Lorius nothing can equal these 
remedies, which, if given in time, will mostly save the patient. 
It has been my experience that when kept with other species, 
the Loriidae will take a more varied diet, ie., learn that there 
are other good things besides milksop and fruit." , 
Later experience confirmed what I have quoted above. 
In 1910 the hen died, and in 1912, when dismantling my aviaries, 
owing to a change of residence, I sold the cock, and for two 
years he was very successful on the show bench for his new 
owner. 
l<.ED-coLLARED LoRiKEET {I'richoglossus rubritorqucs) . 
These again, like most of Mrs. Burgess' birds, were perfect, 
not a feather out of place, and for richness of colour not to be 
surpassed. 
There will be no cause, after the comprehensive article 
on this species in our last issue, to give lengthy notes on the 
keeping of this species, but a few notes on my pair will not be 
out of place. 
My pair came into my possession as follows: In 1907, 
together with Mr. O. Millsum, and the late Col. (then Capt.) 
I'erreau, I paid a visit to the " Little Zoo," Bath, to see Payne 
and Wallace's fine consignment of Australian birds. Among 
others were three Red-collared Lorikeets and I bought a pair 
of them for £10; they were then quite rare. One of them got 
badly shaken up during the rail journey from Bath, and died the 
next day. Messrs. Payne and Wallace replaced it free. Thus 
came into my possession one of the most charming and inter- 
esting pair of birds I have ever possessed, and it was sadly I 
packed them for transit to Miss Drunnnond four years later, 
when, owing to a change of residence, I parted with most of 
my birds. 
When I, or even a stranger, entered the aviary, it was 
simply as a perch for those two birds ; they simply crawled over 
one, and more than once unknowingly 1 brought them out on 
