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Title: The royal natural history
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Frostick, W. B., former owner. DSI Brooks, W. T., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Natural history
Publisher: London and New York : Frederick Warne & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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esis given by Jerdon, who writes that it frequents cultivated grounds andgardens, even in the barest and least wooded p;irts of the country, and it ishabitually found about towns and villages, constanth perching on the house-tops. It is very destructive to most kinds of grain, as well as to fruit-gardens.When the grains are cut and lioused, it feeds on the ground, on the stubble corn-fields, also on meadows, picking up what grains it can; and now and then takes 128 PARROTS. long flights, hunting for any tree that may be in fruit; and when it has made adiscovery of one in fruit, circling round, and swirling with outspread and down-pointing wings till it alights on the tree. It associates in flocks of various size,sometimes in vast numbers, and generally many hundreds roost together in somegarden or grove. It breeds both in holes in trees, and very commonly, in the southof India, in old buildings, pagodas, tombs, etc. It lays four white eggs. Its breed- A \\^==^^^^;te^<^ ^ ^^ ^ / V:^
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HOSY-FACED LOVE-BIRDS (f liat. size). ing-season is from January to Marcli. Its ordinary flight is rapid, with repeatedsti-okes of the wings, somewhat wavy laterally or arrowy. It has a harsh cry,which it always repeats when in fliglit, as well as at other times. These parraquetsare readily tamed, and in India will breed in that state. If well trained, they arefairly (piiet, but if their tempers have been unduly tried they are wont to exercisetheir powers of screaming. Love-Birds ^^^^ pretty little parrots (of which a group is represented in our illustration), common^ known as love-birds, derive both their LOVE-BIRDS. 129 popular and scientific titles on account of the attachment the pairs appear toentertain for one another. Mr. W. T. Greene remarks, however, that a single birdwill live in captivity for years without any apparent signs of pining, and willactually become more attached to its owner than if it formed one of a pair. Andhe adds that the reason why if one of a pair dies the

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