. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . with noscarlet on throat or yellow belt across lower back ; thebeak broader, rather shorter and more arched. Hab.,Wellesley Province to Singapore, Sumatra, Nias,Bangka, and Borneo. Mr. F. Nicholson {T/ie Ibis, 1888, p. 239) fays thatin Sumatra this species is met with in villages oncocoanut trees, and kept by natives in cages. Mr. C. Hose says {The Ibis, 1893, p. 416) : Thislittle Lorikeet is found on all cleared land, and ascendsMount Dulit to 2,000 ft. It is caught by the nativesin large numbers. Native name, Entalit. This is a species tolerably well kno
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . with noscarlet on throat or yellow belt across lower back ; thebeak broader, rather shorter and more arched. Hab.,Wellesley Province to Singapore, Sumatra, Nias,Bangka, and Borneo. Mr. F. Nicholson {T/ie Ibis, 1888, p. 239) fays thatin Sumatra this species is met with in villages oncocoanut trees, and kept by natives in cages. Mr. C. Hose says {The Ibis, 1893, p. 416) : Thislittle Lorikeet is found on all cleared land, and ascendsMount Dulit to 2,000 ft. It is caught by the nativesin large numbers. Native name, Entalit. This is a species tolerably well known to bird-keepers, and has been exhibited from time to says that, according to F. T. Salva, it does greatmischief in Borneo to the sugar-cane plantations, sugar-cane being a favourite food. Its song, according to Dr. Frenzel, is a true melody similar to that of the Red-rumped and Plain-headed Parrakeets, late in the evening and early in the morning. Call-note, zizizizi. The London Zoological Society first purchased a pair. Blue-crowned Hanging P.\ in 1869; in 1873 five were added to the collection, andin 1875 two more. Others have been received sincethat date, the last recorded in the ninth edition of the List of Animals being three presented in 1889. Sclateks Hanging Parrakeet {Loriculus sclateri).Green, flights and tail darker, the former with blackinner webs above, the latter with pale tip; a largeorange-yellow patch, becoming orange-vermilion in the •220 FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. centre, on the upper back; rump and upper tail-covertsbright red, as well as fIont edge of wing; feathers offorehead red-brownish at base; a red patch on thethroat; flights below with blue inner webs; tail belowblue; beak black; the base of upper mandible and cereyellow; feet yellow ; irides yellow. Female apparentlydiffering in having the red throat-patch narrower,forming a longitudinal streak, sometimes , Sula Islands. I have discovered no account of t
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