Identifier: birdnotes53fore (find matches)
Title: Bird notes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rtly on account of the constant persecution it is subjected to, and partly from the destruction of the woods which form its headquarters. It is an extremely gentle and sociable bird, living in large flocks, and subsisting chiefly on grain, buds, leaves, roots and insects. It seems well adapted for domestication, the more so as it is easily fed; but in captivity one must provide the shade of a park and the neighbourhood of a clear stream of water—that is, similar surroundings to those it is accustomed to in its wild state. The Cochafceel at Liberty. By the Marquis of Tavistock. In articles which I have written on parrakeet keeping Iliave always given Calopsittaciis novac-hollondiac a very badcliaracter as a non-stayer at liberty. I am not sure, however,that I have not done the bird an injustice, and that my previousfailures have not been due to my making a very elementarymistake—that of keeping the mate of the bird at liberty in aplace where it could not be easily seen and visited.
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o o A Visit to an Indian Jheel. 209 Hearin.i^, some time ago, of a person who had kept amale cockateel and his family at liberty for a considerable time,cnly losing- them when he unwisely released the old hen also, thouglit I would make one more experiment to see if, afternil, the cockateel does not belong to that class of swift-flyingparrakeets, the males of which will stay so long as their matesare in confinement. Accordingly I placed a pair in a suitable aviary withplenty of tall trees at the back of it, and after a week or tworeleased the cock, having taken the precaution to keep himwithout food since the early morning. His behaviour at firstwas not promising. He was soon on the wing at a greatheight looking at any moment as if he might dash away andtravel for miles, but the hen did her duty as a call bird, andtlough he flew as swift and wild as any bird I have released,he kept circling back over the garden and never really wentt.T away. Most of the afternoon and evening he drifte

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