32 ^ENDBB-BILLEB COCKATOO. 
to Hm, and it is wished that ho should reproduce his kind, which, so 
far as we can learn, he has never yet done in captivity. 
“N’e'veillez pas le chat qui dort”: is a good old French proverb, 
which has its equivalent in our English saying “Let sleeping dogs 
lie ” and we would commend both to the consideration of those of our 
readers who are possessed of pet Parrots, Macaws, or Cockatoosj never 
give your birds any stimulating food, you will excite them if you do, 
and finding no legitimate outcome for their feelings, they will, literally, 
turn to and rend themselves to pieces, plucking out every feather on 
their bodies they can reach, and leaving themselves as bare as Plato s 
“ biped of which we remember having read. 
