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SENEGAL PARROT. 
example of Dr. Russ, we have preferred to restrict to that under 
consideration. 
The name of Senegal Parrot, or Parrakeet, is very often given to 
the black-beaked African variety of the Ring-necked Parrakeet, Psit- 
tacus torquatus, var. docilis, but erroneously so, in our opinion, as it 
is much more appropriately bestowed upon the subject of the present 
notice, which really belongs to that part of the “dark” continent, 
whence it is occasionally imported in considerable numbers via Havre 
and Bordeaux: there is, at present, only one representative of this 
species in the Gardens of the London Zoological Society, where, on 
the whole, the Parrot race is very inadequately represented, and the 
worst accommodated of all the animals belonging to their collection : 
but now that attention has been called to the subject, let us hope 
that the Society will exert itself to cause the speedy removal of an 
approbrium that does much to mar the reputation they have justly 
obtained in other branches of Natural History: it is true, as our 
colleague has remarked, that the Zoological Society is not une Societe 
d’ Acclimatation ; but nevertheless they should do something to enhance 
the comfort of the poor Parrots committed to their charge: they 
have handsomely provided for the obscene apes and monkeys of their 
collection, and more recently for the snakes and crocodiles, and it is 
only fair that the Parrots should have their turn, and we sincerely hope 
that, for the poor creatures’ own sakes, it may come ere long. 
