Ireeding of the Red-sided Eclectus Parrot. 
get, and we had sad visions of a starved family. Then there 
"was nothing for it but to feed him by hand, an exhausting- 
and most lengthy performance. 
I am told that these Parrots are not consid- 
•ered as clever and interesting as others, but I have 
found mine the most delightful and clever of birds in 
every way, and most attached to those they like — very tame 
■and very gentle — though they do not much care for strangers. 
My male bird says a few words. The nesting log is nine 
feet from, the ground, of heavy oak, twenty inches in diameter 
bored right through, about one and a half feet long, the front 
half covered with a pYece of "board fastened with wooden 
pegs, and a board (platform) about eight inches square in 
front. At the far end is a cup -shaped depression. 
The young birds are male and female and similar in 
plumage to their parents. At first they were covered with 
down (interior of log very dark), but on August 31st a tinge 
of red on the head of one and green on the other was visible 
and then a gradual bursting of the plumage through the grey 
down left the young birds almost as brilliant as their parents. 
The Green Fruitsuckers. 
(Chloropsis and lora. 
By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S, Etc. 
(Continued from page 212). 
As there are stil) 11 species of Chloropsis to des- 
cribe, the notes of each species can be but brief, but as they 
are all very similar in their general habits and character- 
istics, and these have been fully covered in previous instal- 
ments, mere descriptions and range should fully meet the need 
of the remaining species. 
Hainan Geeen Fkuitsuc ker (Chloropsis 'lazulina) : 
As regards this beautiful species, I can only make extracts 
from the British Museum Catalogue. 
AdiiU Mule: " General colour ab )ve bright grass-green, washed with 
golden green on the liiiid neck and sides of latter ; crown washed with dull 
bluish green or greenish verditer, brighter over the eyes forming a supercili- 
ary line, the same colour occupying the upper margin of ej-elid ; lores, re- 
mainder of eyelids and sides of face blue-black, brighter below the eye ; 
cheeks bright cobalt, forming a broad moustachial band ; throat and foreneck 
