. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . probably is identical withthe root vazo, loud-voiced, clamorous. Writing of the Comoro Islands ( Three Voyages ofa Naturalist, p. 87), Mr. M. J. NicoU says:—Thegrey-headed Love-bird is not uncommon on the culti-vated land near the seashore, and at p. 98 he says:^ They were always in pairs, and their flight was won-derfully i-apid. According to the late Mr. Wiener and others whohave bred this species, it lines its nesting-hole withshavings of bark or thin splinters of wood, which itcarries to the nest stuck between the upper tail-coverts,but iMr. Seth-Smith
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . probably is identical withthe root vazo, loud-voiced, clamorous. Writing of the Comoro Islands ( Three Voyages ofa Naturalist, p. 87), Mr. M. J. NicoU says:—Thegrey-headed Love-bird is not uncommon on the culti-vated land near the seashore, and at p. 98 he says:^ They were always in pairs, and their flight was won-derfully i-apid. According to the late Mr. Wiener and others whohave bred this species, it lines its nesting-hole withshavings of bark or thin splinters of wood, which itcarries to the nest stuck between the upper tail-coverts,but iMr. Seth-Smith says sometimes in their beaks, amode of conveyance that is probably never adopted ina natural state, in which the material, consisting ofpliant strips of green hark, is carried under the feathersof the lower back. My own first pair of this speciesbuilt in a log and carried all the material in their beaks,but the hen never laid in the nest, but dropped hereggs all over the place. Ju?t when the cock bird was at its best, at the ccm-. Love-Bird.{Uead of Male.) mencement of the winter of 1891-92, it must haverendered it.^elf objectionable to my Rosella Parrakeet,which promptly killed it; it was a very jealous andirritable little bird, always ready to attack any bird,however large, which showed an interest in its its death the latter and the Rosella were one-xcellent terms. She spent much of her time in a log-nest, and he used to look down at her through theentrance hole until .«he saw fit to take an airing, whenhe followed her about from one part of the aviary toanother, only varying this occupation by hunting theBudgerigars under the mistaken notion that he couldcatch them. A male which I had subsequently was so aggressivethat I was glad to exchange it for something moreamiable. The Madagascar Love-bird is very spiteful towardsany weaker species associated with it (and this seemsto be true of Love-birds generallv) ; I had two henssent to me many years af
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