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"cannot say, as they fly as soon a.s s6T.n. When the rains have 
"teased, the inoreasiii^r drought renaers these, as it does many 
"other birds, more familiar; and they may lie fesn lingering on 
"the horders of streams and pnnds. Indeei, they s&em, of all 
■'our Doves, to haunt most the vicinity of water; particularly 
" those dreary swamps or morasses which are environed by tall 
" woods of mangrove. In the winter months, when the pastureg 
" are burnt up with drbuglit, we may hear all day long their 
" plaintive cooing, proceeding from the.-e sombre groves, tlujugh 
" it is not much heard in any other situation 
The Pea Dove subsists on various fruits, ;ind 
"seeds, pimento -Ijcrries, orange-pips, hop-seeds, castor-oil nuts, 
" physic-nuts, maize and the smaller seeds of pasture weeds ajTC 
" some of his resources. 
" I kept several of these birds in a cage for nearly a 
" year, but they were too timid to be interesting iiv oo.nfintei-i 
" "ment. They could not bear any approach to them without 
"'fluttering violently. . . . They weie jealous of other birds, irri- 
" table and pugnacious. A Cashew* bird that was a fellow pris- 
" oner, they would strike at with the wing, and even if I my- 
" self suddenly approached, the wing was raised in defence. They 
" iwere spiteful towards an unoffending Killdeer Plover, pecking' 
" flt him so violently as to pull the feathers from his side, and 
" and make him cry out. I fed them with maize 
" The nest is, as usual, a loose platform of twigs interlaced, with 
" scarcely an hollow, and no leaves .... contains two 
"leggs of a drab-hue." 
Gosse records an instance in which one of these 
b'irds tumbled about the ground in a grotesque manner, af- 
fecting inability to fly, in order to lure them away from the 
vicinity to its nest, which was however soon discovei-ed, but 
in an inaccessible position. 
Three Poeocephali. 
By Ebv. G. H. Raynor, M.A. 
When last I paid a visit (some few months since) to 
the Parrot House at the Zoo, I was much fascinated with 
several of the l>eautiful inmates, notably the Mealy Rosella, 
Barnard's and the Crimson -winged Parrakeets, the Owl Parrot 
and the Citron -crested Cockatoo. But I said on my depar- 
ture, to the keeper who had most intelligently shown me 
round : " You may keep the rest of the Parrots, if you will 
give me your Poeocephali! "; so greatly Was I impressed with 
* Tanagier, 
