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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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of whiclitwo got broken; the other two were hatched andreared : these two birds appeared to be sexes, and dif-fered when thev left the nest in the colouring of theunder tail-coverts—scarlet in one, faint orange in theother. Mr. Seth-Smith had a pair which .showed the greatestantipathy to a pair of Blue-bonnet Parrakeets in theadjoining aviary, and made themselves so objectionableto the latter by biting their toes severely through thewire that he had to get rid of them. A very nice specimen of this bird was exhibited bvMr. Dewar at the Crystal Palace Show in 1892, andother specimens have appeared on the bench since then. The first two specimens to reach our ZoologicalGardens were presented in 1863: altogether, at leastn dozen examples have been exhibited there at varioustimes.Bltje-cheeked P.iHu.iKEET (Platyccrcus amathusia). Differs from the preceding species in the paler yel-lowish edges to the feathers of the back, in tlie yellowertinge of the feathers of the nunp and upper tail-
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Mealy Kosklla.s. 224 FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. coverts, the almost entirely blue cheeks, the yellowtinge of the upper breast, the greener tinge of the lowerbreast and abdomen and of the base of the two centraltail-feathers. Female apparently differing in its lessswollen upper mandible. Hab., North Australia, fromPort Darwiji to Rockingham Bay. Nothing seems to be known respecting the life-historyof this bird ; an example was received in exchange atthe London Zoological Gardens in 1887, and in the fol-lowing year no less than ten examples were depositedthere. Th© Red-mantled Parrakeet (Platt/cercus erythro-pej)lus) is now known to be nwrely a hybrid betweenPennants Parrakeet and the common Rosella. It firstreached the London Zoological Gardens in 1890. Browns Parr.\keet (Plati/cercus browni). Feathers of bade and scapulars black bordered withpale yellow; those of the rump and upper tail-covertspale yellow, with the concealed baees and fringes black ;a, black patch on the wing

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