gO» PUBPLB-OAPPED LORY. 
to be found together again very soon. They had a strong homing 
faculty. They might sometimes fly nearly half a mile away, to a covert 
out of sight of home, but always about five they would be found on 
the cornice of the house, where they roosted, if they did not feel 
sufficiently hungry to come to their cage. It was very pretty to see 
them fly home. They were like living jewels as their bright scarlet 
bodies flashed through the air. They did not always come home 
together: sometimes one would be back twenty minutes earlier than 
the other, but at five the cornice of the house was pretty sure to hold 
them. 
If they could have gone on like this, I should probably have them 
now; but winter was coming, and they would not have been able to 
stand autumn, still less winter, days out. I felt I could not have 
them in a sitting-room through winter, when windows must necessarily 
be more closed, and their smell would render the room unbearable, so 
in September I parted with them to the Zoological Gardens, where I 
believe they still are, in this November, 1883. 
If any one should think of buying a Purple-cap or a Ceram Lory, 
for I imagine the remarks about one apply equally to the other, I 
would advise him to secure a thoroughly tame bird, and one that can 
already say one or two words at least. For this he must be prepared 
to give rather more than he would for an ordinary Lory, which is worth 
about fifty shillings. 
