. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . rikeets, feeding on honeyfrom the cups of expanded blossoms of eucalypti. According to Campbell, this species sometimes laystwo eggs. In captivity it is re^wrted as long-lived,amiable, and sociable, and its cry is said to be lesspenetrating than that of other species. According toMr. Seth-Sniith ( Parrakeets, p. 15), tlxis speciestaeems to take more kindly to a diet of canaryseed thando most of the Lorikeets, and probably examples fed en-tirely upon seed would not long remain free from fits,or would veiy soon lose the natural brightness of theirl)lumage. A
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . rikeets, feeding on honeyfrom the cups of expanded blossoms of eucalypti. According to Campbell, this species sometimes laystwo eggs. In captivity it is re^wrted as long-lived,amiable, and sociable, and its cry is said to be lesspenetrating than that of other species. According toMr. Seth-Sniith ( Parrakeets, p. 15), tlxis speciestaeems to take more kindly to a diet of canaryseed thando most of the Lorikeets, and probably examples fed en-tirely upon seed would not long remain free from fits,or would veiy soon lose the natural brightness of theirl)lumage. An instance of the species breeding in captivity ■wasrecorded in Notes on Cage-birds, p. 170 (1899); twoyoiimg were reared. Usually imported in small numbers, but in 1883 received a considerable numtor. It is saidto have been bred in an open-air aviary in London inthe winter of 1883-84, wlien the water was frozen everynight and .sometimes in the daytime. There ought,therefore, to be no difficulty in keeping this Scaly-breasted Lorrikeets. 138 FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. Perfect Lorikeet [Psitteuteles eiiteles). Above green; tail-f«atheTS yeUowish-green on innerwebs; head yellowish-olivei; under-eurface yellowish-green ; flights below blaokish, yellow towards base ofinner webs; beak yellow; feet dark. Female not dif-ferentiated. Hab., Timor. Floree. Wetter, Lettie,Babbar, and Timor-Laut. (Salvador!.) I have not come across any information respecting thewild life of this almost uniformly-coloured little Lori-keet, but it probably has much the same habit* as itsallies. A pair were deposited in the Ijondon Zoological Gar-dens in 1896, and Mr. Setli-Smith reports them ae stillliving (in a cage) in ilay, 1902, in the most perfecthealth and condition. Red-crowned or Varied Lorikeet(Ptilosclera versicolor). Green, streaked with yellowish-green; crown andlores red; ear-coverts and a band at back of headyellowish; cheeks and a, collar on the nape bluish;bre
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