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

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in a cage, but this I have on several occa-sions proved to be a pure mytli. ily Passerine Parrot-let was quite happy by himself, but at the beginningof 1905 I turned him into ome division of my smallestaviary with two hens of the Madagascar Lovebird, and(unluckily for himself a;nd his choice) he selected as hismate the smaller and weakex hen of the two. Shortlyafterwards, in a fit of jealousy, the stronger bird killedthe wenker and gnawed away half lier skull. She thenmade up to the Parrot let, but he persistently refusedto breed with her, though apparently friendly enough.In 1906 she losti her temper and treated the Blue-wingas .she had the hen of her own species, and in Octoberof the same year she died. The two hens had livedtogethed- for some yeai-s before I turned the Parrotletin with them, and therefore I rather doubt the advisa,-bility of attempting to breed the above hj^brid. The first specimen of this common species to reachthe London Zoological Gardens was presented in 1858.
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Ulossomhkadeti Pakkakeet. (Quaker Parkakeet. King-necked Pakuakeet. 168 FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. Guiana Parrotlet (IHtlacu/a guianensis).Green ; lower back and rump emerald-green^^ some-times washed wath :blue ; upper tail-coverts yeflowish-green ; outer edges and lips of greater upper wing-covertsemerald-greMi; the outer ones sometimes tinged withcobult-iblue; innermiost primary coverts deep blue;metacarpal edge blui&h-gieen; tail with yellow inner■webs to the teathore; hind neck tinged with greyish;forehead and «ides of head emerald-Hgreen; under i>artsyellowish-green; imder wing-coverts deep blue, partlytipped or edged -with bluisli-greeui; axillaries bluish-green tipped wJth deep blue ; flights below with greenishanner webs; bealk whitish; feet flesh-coloured; iridesbrown. Female green, with brighteT Tump. the sidesof head and under-surface yellowish-green; inner websof flights below green,isJi. Hab., Guiana (?l, Vene-zuela, Tiinidad Island, Colombia, and Amazo

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