Notes of Lcadcnham House Ai'iaries. 195 
A pair of Quaker Parrakeets (Myof^s'itacits mouachus), 
just purchased, I have not yet liberated. 
In this aviary during- winter I also had a White-crested 
Jay-Thrush {Garriilax Icucolophus), now deposited at Zoo and 
for sale, and a Black-necked Crackle, which I sold to the i^ew 
York Zoo for £5. Both these were amusing birds, especiallv 
the latter, who did not know what fear was and had evidently 
been reared by hand: he whistled part of a tune when no one 
was watching him, and had a whistle of his own, which he used 
violently or otherwise according- as he was pleased or required 
attention. To be tickled or scratched anywhere delighted him 
and caused him to stretch himself up to his full Ic" rth and raise 
his hackles. He ate some seed and soft food, hv.. liked bread 
and milk, grapes and a bit of ra-.v meat. A dead r-ouse would 
be skinned and enjoyed! If he thought he was b -ing- teased 
or interfered with he would let drive with sledge-hammer 
strokes of the bill, Init was otherwise good-tempered with all. 
No. 2 Aviary : In this a\ iary no successes lulialevcr in 
the breeding line! T'airs (?) of Brush Mynah.s {Acridothcrcs 
fusciis). Blue-cheeked Barbets (Cyanops asiatiea). and Red- 
vented Bulbuls {M olpastcs bengalcnsis), true pair Indian Rain 
Quail (Cotuniix eoroDiandelica). and Common Quail (C. cci- 
urnix), a Creen Clossy Starling- (Lamprocolius chalybcus 
(lately purchased), and my old cock Sliama out for his summer 
season; for " cock of this walk " I think the two latter about 
divide the hoi. our, though the Bprbets pretty well have their 
own way. 
In May and June the Common Quail (Cotuniix cotuniix) 
could be seen uttering their " wet my lip, wet my lip," familiar 
to my ear in those months on the high land here. T hoped they 
would nest, but so far I have failed to obtain a clutch of tnesc 
eg-gs cither from in or outside the aviary! 1 am inclined, how-- 
ever, to believe that this pair mated. They have another call 
and also a variation of the " wet my I'p " cry. Barbets 
Mynahs, Bulbuls, and Starling- all feed on fruit, and are content 
with apple, but what they really appear to relish are g-reen fig-s, 
of which I give them the skins; beyond this fruit I gi/e nothing 
in ',Iiis aviary but soft food and white millet. Having been a 
