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Title: Foreign birds for cage and aviary
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925
Subjects: Cage birds
Publisher: London, "The Feathered world"
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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avoured with its presence,as it there finds a plentiful supply of food, consisting ofseeds and berries, He also observes that at theseason when the Indian corn is ripening it is visited bygreat flocks of this Parrakeet, which cause considerablehavoc amongst the crop ; as regards its breeding habitshe was unable to obtain any particulars. But Mr.North says that it builds in such lofty trees that thenest is very difficult to take. Mr. A. j. Campbell ( Nests and Eggs of AustralianBirds, p. 628) thus describes the nidification :— Nest.—Within a hollow limb or trunk of a giant tree(Eucnlypt), sometimes as far down as the base, in heavyforest country, Fj(iqs.—Clutch four to six : roundish inshape : texture of shell coarse ; surface slightly glossy,but somewhat rough, being minutely pitted, and withhere and there a limy nodule; colour pure white.Dimensions in inches of a clutch ; (1) 1.3 by 1.08; (2)1,27 by 1.11; (3) 1.21 by 1,06. Dr, Russ describes this bird as abundant in zoologicajl
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.MASKID and KlN(i IARltAKEliTS. 212 FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. institutions, also ,in ibird-roojiis; qiriet and peawabJe,but cwing to its sitting so still it is more plea-sing onaccount of its fine coloiuing than its agi-€«a:blene5s. ItIS fond of bathing, enduring, ajid insensible to cold ;therefore to be recommended for large aviaries out ofdoors. Bred by Mr. A. KoWer. of Weissenfels. Sevrralinstances have been i-ecorded ot the s=uoctis«ful breedingof the species in this country also, andl if more femaleswere imported, there can be little douibt that successeswould bo still more frequent. The London Zoological Society acquired its firstfpec;i;nien of the King Panakeet in 1859, and has sinceexhibited a considerable number of both sexes. In the genus Pi/erhulopsis the tail is graduated, butthe beak is much stronger than in Aprovdctux, and theupper mandible is not notched : the feeding in captivityshould be the isama as foo- the King Parrs^ee!:. Red Shining Parrakeet (Pt/rrh

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