File:Foreign birds for cage and aviary (1910) (14752417271).jpg

Identifier: foreignbirdsforc02butl (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
lon. Legge (Birds of Ceylon, Vol. I., p. 170) says :—Large colonies of this species take up their abode indistricts where cocoanut cultivation borders on forestsand wild jungle, which afford an abundance of fruit-bearing trees, on the berries of which the AlexandrineParrakeet subsists. It is also found in openly-timberedcountry and in forests. It roosts in considerablenumbers in cocoanut groves, often close to a village,pouring in about half an hour before sunset in smallswiftly-flying parties from all directions, which, astheir numbers increase towards the time for roosting,create a deafening noise in the excitement of choosingor finding their accustomed quarters. The fronds of thecocoanut afford them a favourite perch, on which theysleep huddled together in rows. At daybreak the vastcrowd is again astir, and after much ado, flying from * lly brother telle mie that the speed with which a sma.!)flock of the Indiau epeoies wiil empty the potlis in a row ofpeas ie simply a^toniehiog:.
Text Appearing After Image:
Alexandkixe Parrakeet. 200 FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. tree to tree with incessant screaming, small partiesstart off for their feeding-grminds, flying low, just abovethe trees, and every now and then uttering their fulland loud note ke-aar ; this sound is more long-drawnand not so shrill as that of the smaller bird, and canbe heard at a great distance. Isolated birds have ahabit of apparently leaving the rest of tlie flock androaming off at a great height in the air, every now andthen giving out a loud scream, which often attracts theattention of the traveller or sportsman for some littletime before he is aware of the position of the Parrakeet,which is flying swiftly on far above his head. It is ashyer bird than its smaller congener, and rather difficultof approach when not engaged in feeding or in thebusiness of settling down for the night; at the lattertime numbers may be shot without their companionsdoing more than flying out of, and directly returningto, their chosen trees.

Note About Images