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BED-WINGED PABBAKEET. 
secure tliem, as far as possible, from tbe risk of infection, and to make 
them as happy and comfortable as they can be made in captivity, in 
order to tempt them to reproduce their kind in the aviary; although 
natives of a warm country, they will stand the cold of our winters in 
an unheated room indoors, but we have not ventured to test their en- 
durance out of doors, although we are disposed to believe that they 
would not, under such conditions, be more delicate than many of their 
compatriots. 
With regard to the remark on page 2 of the first number of Parrots 
in Captivity, that “Like all the Parrot tribe, with one or two doubtful 
exceptions, the nesting place of Gofiin^s Cockatoos is in the hollow of 
some dead branch”, our esteemed correspondent, Mme. Cassirer, of 
Paris, writes: ^'Why 'doubtfuP? Are the accounts of the nest built 
of sticks of the Quaker Parrot {JBoJhorhynclius monachus cinereicollis'), 
given by Azara, Darwin, Castlenau, and Burmeister, and in captivity 
in South America by Azara, by Schmidt in Europe, by Dr. Brehm, 
and Miilzel in the Zoological Gardens of Berlin — not suJHGicient to con- 
vince you? Do you not believe the accounts of the nests of the Peach- 
faced Love-birds [Agapornis roseicolUs) given both by Drs. Brehm and 
Russ, and also of the Grey-headed Love-bird "We are convinced: 
and cry ‘ Peccavimus.’ 
