PARRAKEETS 
45 
pleasure to a simple little lecture, and quietly stroll down to 
their head-quarters for the night, where after supper they have 
a dance. The excursion lasts three days. The result of this 
training is that, when they grow up, they cultivate, rather than 
destroy, wild flowers ; they have a marketable knowledge, are 
disciplined and courteous. I make these remarks, because it 
will be seen in the Annual Report of the United Devon Associa- 
tion that Lord Clinton has undertaken to direct the attention of 
the Devon County Council to supplement the efforts of the 
Association to enforce the County Bye-laws for the protection of 
Natural Objects. 
It is sad that the.se Bye-laws should be necessary, and I trust 
that the day is not far distant when they will fall into disuse. 
The endeavour to obtain a willing protection has always 
been and I trust always will be, the aim of the Selborne Society, 
and I think that it is in this direction that the Members of the 
Society in Devonshire can render the most effectual aid to Lord 
Clinton’s -\gsociation. 
George A. Musgr.we, F.R.G.S. 
V.P. Selbovne Society. 
PARRAKEETS THAT MAY BE BRED AND 
WINTERED OUT OF DOORS. 
* Will aj^ree all together in one aviary. 
t Temperament doubtful. .Some will agree in the general aviary, others are 
quarrelsome, and have to be put up alone or they would work mischief. 
All these would do well in England if turned out in May or June, but would 
require penning up for a time. If they were required to remain in the locality 
they should be kept in an aviary for a year or more, and then if a door is left open 
they would probably stay and breed in any trees at hand, coming fairly regularly 
to their old quarters for food. If they were to become at all numerous they would 
do a lot of damage in our English woods, but the present demeanour of sportsmen 
precludes any possibility of that. The descriptions here given are not by any 
means complete, simply sufficient to give an idea of general colour and appear- 
ance ; all measurements herein given are from tip of beak to tip of tail. I could 
have quoted many anecdotes of my own and others, breeding e.Kperiences but 
space forbids. The list might easily have been longer, but I have confined it to 
those species usually on the market. 
Cockatoos of all varieties would also succeed under the same circumstances, 
but they would require a brick shed and stout wire flight to confine them, their 
powerful beaks would readily bite through ordinary wire netting. 
% Must each have a separate aviary to themselves. 
|HE following may be kept out of doors all the year 
round, but they must be turned out in May or June, 
then they become acclimatised and able to bear winter’s 
colds and frosts when they arrive. It is useless to 
purchase them in autumn and then turn them out ; they will only 
die unless they have been previously kept out of doors. 
