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The Green Fruitsuckers. 
opinion the term " Green Bulbuls " should be dropped from 
our list of popular names and that they be designated Fruit- 
suckers, which is already largely done, and I propose that 
in future, in Bird Notes at any rate, they be only known by 
the latter cognomen. 
Before proceeding to describe the species it will be 
better to add a few remarks on diet and treatment, which is 
really very simple— soft ripe fruit, live insects, and a little 
insectile mixture will suffice to keep them fit and robust (the 
whole genus are long-lived once they have got over the 
prostration following importation) ; they are all however very 
fond of milk sop and suck it up with great gusto, and per- 
sonally I believe they are the better for it, but they cer- 
tainly can be kept without it and when confined in a cage, 
their domicile is more easily kept dry and sweet, when the 
sop is omitted from their " bill of fare." But they ought not 
to be continuously confined to a cage, they should have spells 
of liberty, once they have become tame, and will often after 
a fly round settle on their owner's hand or shoulder and can 
can easily be returned to cage at will, but, I must leave 
general remarks till later. 
Jbrdons Feuitsucker {Chloropsis jerdoni, Bb/th): 
This species is quite rare on the English market, and only 
hali-a-dozen females at most have been imported, and I do 
not tliink any males have been imported since our member 
Mr. E. \V. Harper presented the London Zoological Society 
with a specimen, which, I think, lived several years in the 
Western Aviary. There, I had the pleasure of seeing it 
on the wing many times; beautiful as it is under observa- 
tion in a cage, its beauty is glorifie I at once when seen 
on the wing, or hovering at the top of some twig or flower; 
to all who have so seen it, the equivalent in English of 
one of its vernacular names " Ornament of the Forest," will 
appeal at once. A glance at our plate renders quite un- 
necessary further eulogy of its beautiful plumage (though 
the plate, clever as the drawing is, gives but a faint idea 
of the opaque, yet intense hues and silky textu-e of its lovely 
plumage). The studies of the female were made from the 
bird exhibited by our Exhibition Secretary, Mr. S. M. Towns- 
end at several shows during the past season. 
