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he dips the whole lengtli of his beak into my cup. When 
four o'clock conies round and I partake of China tea he is 
utterly disconsolate unless he is allowed to go through Uie 
same process with this fragrant leverage. 
Many of my friends are pleased to consider me a lucky 
person, so that your readers will scarcely ho surprised to 
hear that the morning after Eeggie's arrival, I received a 
letter from a well-known traveller offering me a fine and 
tame specimen of Aubry's Parrot and expressing his willing- 
ness to send it on approval. I need hardly say that not 
many days elapsed before this very rare 'bird arrived at 
Hazeleigh Rectory where it now continues to reside. I say 
advisedly " very rare," for I believe that except the speci- 
men at the Zoo there is no other, and ipossibly nevfer has 
been, in the British Isles. The real differences between 
Aubry's and Jardine's Parrots, as shown in the two adult 
specimens on view at the Zoological Gardens are these : — 
1. Jardine's is much larger and darker. 
2. In Aubry's the forehead and shoulder patches are 
scarlet; in Jardine's they are orange, paling to gold. 
3. In Aubry's the upper and under tail -coverts are 
yellowish -green and tinged with orange in the adult; in Jar- 
dine's they are a pure hard emerald green. 
'4. In Jardine's the wing is much darker, almost 
black, and the cheeks are tinged with sooty -grey. 
As these points of difference do not altogether corres- 
pond to those mentioned in the descriptions of the Museum 
Catalogue of Parrots, I herewith append these two descrip- 
tions, and must, in passing, express my best thanks to Mr. 
Tinniswood Miller for so kindly copying them out on my 
behalf, and, as it turns out, for the benefit of your readers : — 
Poeocephalufi aiibri/anus. AUBRY'S PARROT. 
" Very much like P. gulielmi but the red colour of 
" the forehead, l>end of wing, metacarpal edge, and thighs 
"with no yellowish tinge; upper mandible white, or lilack 
"with a yellowish patch near the base; lower mandible 
"Wack; feet dusky. Total length 11.5 inches, wings 7.7 
" inches, tail 3.2 inches, bill 1.35 inches, tarsus 0.7 inches." 
" Yoking. Has less red on forehead, bend of wings 
"and metacarpal edge; thighs green." (B.M.C., Vol. XX). 
