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-quite a feature of the avicultural press and literature of the day. 
To readers of this Journal, the A.M., and (ireene's Parrots in 
Captivity this is merely the repetition of a well known fact. 
When he visited niy small aviaries, then located in the back- 
garden of a suburban villa, his keenness and interest in bird-life 
was very apjiarent, as also was his store of information and 
practical experience of the Parrot tribe generally; yet his 
opinion was never forced upon one, but merely courteously 
stated, and that of others deferentially listened to. In spite of 
the silence of his pen during' later years, his name and work will 
live long in aviculture. W.T.P. 
The Late Dr. L. Lovell-Keays :- Unlike the pieced- 
ing, my late friend Lovell-Keays can lay no claim to a life long 
interest in aviculture, and as I was rather intimately associated 
with this period, I can bear testimony to how thorough it was 
(a complete obsession) and how thoroughly a keen intellect, 
trained to observance by his profession, was brought to bear 
upon the occupants of his aviaries, and how ceaselessly the 
" cause and effects " of the various episodes and happenings of 
the occupants of his aviaries was studied and noted — this was 
to some extent apparent in his writings, but, much alas! will 
never be revealed. The few years of practical bird-keeoing 
he enjoyed were very successful ones — in a very short period 
he gathered together 500 or 600 birds, mostly Passerines and 
Parrakeets and had thirteen aviaries, three or which were quite 
large. Personal care and study he lavished upon the birds, 
and consequently he was very successful in breeding many 
species. The war-cloud appeared and burst, and in due course, 
1916 I think, he was called to the colours, becoming" a lieutenant 
in the R.A.M.C.. and his aviaries and birds passed into other 
hands. He was demobbed in 1919 and within a very short 
time was settled at (luildford, had built an aviary and gathered 
together again the nucleus of another collection — but it was 
not to be, those three years of strenuous effort, mental and 
physical strain with the colours had broken-up a never really 
robust constitution, and an energetic and useful life was brought 
to a close on May 14th last, when he passed away at the early 
;age of 44 or 45. To those who knew him well, his zeal, geniality 
and comradeship, endeared him, and these will keep him in 
