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with the under surface of the tail old gold washed with red. They,

too, have attempted incubation on two eggs laid on the bare sand.

Thinking the installation of a log after the eggs were laid useless,

we introduced a cushion of sod and peat moss and lifted the eggs with

a spoon on to it. The female immediately went to the eggs and covered

them but was very careless about it—sometimes one egg was quite

exposed and she was very erratic. The eggs were found to be clear

eventually.


Cage No. 15. A beautiful pair of Pileated Parrakeets. These have

a colour scheme reminiscent of the Swainson’s Lorikeet though of

different arrangement. In summer we have them with these birds

and all appear congenial.


Cage No. 16. An odd group. Two Javan Parrakeets, two Black¬

headed Caiques, also very tame and playful, a tame Blue-headed

Parrot, a Lesser Vasa, and a Barnard’s Parrakeet.


Cage No. 17. Another odd group. A second Blue-headed Parrot,

several Barnard’s, and two of the rare Derbyan Parrakeets.


Cage No. 18. A pair of Crimson-winged Parrakeets which I think

are among the most brilliant and unusually coloured in this great

family, a pair of King’s, also dazzlingly beautiful, a Port Lincoln,

and a Barraband. If I do not enthuse over all it is because of repetition

-—all of them are attractive—some which may appear comparatively

dull make up in intelligence and lovable ways.


Cages 19 and 20. A double cage of Kosellas—Crimson, Common,

Pale-headed, and Yellow-bellied. Their gorgeous colours, even though

not exactly tasteful, to my way of thinking, do add much life and

variety.


Cage No. 21. Parrotlets, Turquoise-rumped and Blue-winged,

Tovies, Hooded Parrakeets, and several Bourke’s Parrakeets. These

certainly are different in their soft colouring of pink, grey, and brown.

A pair of the Bourke’s started an endless period of incubation but

after six weeks we found nothing hatched so removed the two eggs

from the log.


Cage No. 22. A pair of the very rare, nowadays, Turquoisines,

two male Stanley Kosellas, a female Red Rump, and three Blue-wings,

dainty and elegant in form and plumage.



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