102 SPLENDID PABEAKEET. 
On tlie whole, however, the Splendid one is not an nnaniiable bird, 
but rather the reverse, and as he is handsome, hardy and expensive, 
it is to be hoped some of the leading dealers in the “fancy will 
advise their correspondents in W^estern Australia to look him up, cap- 
ture and send over to us a few more of these desirable birds than 
they have hitherto done; and we feel sure that if they take our advice, 
they will find that they have made a more profitable venture than if 
they had imported some two or three times the number of Paradise 
Parrakeets, or Blue Mountain Lories; for, even if they asked for the 
Splendid three times the price of either of the foregoing species, they 
would be sure to get it, and the purchasers, too, would make an infi- 
nitely better bargain. 
