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ALEXANDRINE PABEAEEET. 
susceptible of being tamed as any of its congeners, although we have 
recently seen it stated that such is not the case: several specimens 
that, at various times, have come under our own observation were as 
gentle and amiable as they could well be, and apparently much at- 
tached to their owners. They vary, however, immensely in disposition, 
but all of them are extremely impatient of solitude, and, where prac- 
ticable, should be kept in pairs; not necessarily with a view to breeding 
them, but in order, by providing them with congenial society, that 
they may not acquire the objectionable habit of shrieking, so common 
to all the race, when kept in solitary confinement. 
Th Ho 71 . and Rev. F. G. Dutton's accomit of the Alexandrine 
Parrakeet (Palseornis eupatrius). 
This bird has even greater disadvantages as a pet than the Bengal 
Parrakeet, inasmuch as its screams are oven more disagreeable, and 
its bdl is much more formidable, being nearly as large as a Macaw’s. 
But it can be made as tame, and taught to talk as well as the Bengal 
Parrakeet. One of these, by the way, made an instance of the third 
species of Palceornis which I have let out, and which has not returned 
to its cage. The other species were the Bengal and the Blossom-head. 
