Identifier: illustratedbooko00blak (find matches)
Title: The illustrated book of canaries and cage-birds, British and foreign
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Blakston, W. A Swaysland, W Wiener, August F
Subjects: Canaries Cage birds
Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
z., Januaryto April—some soaked bread, oatmeal, and milk, and a little &%^ may be given with advantage,and it will be found that all these Parrakeets are not difficult to breed. Male and female areso much alike that no absolute distinguishing marks can be named. PENNANTS PARRAKEET (Platyca-cus Pennanti), New South Wales. (Illustrated.)Psitiacus Pennanti (Russ), Psitlacus gloriosus, Psitlacus splendidus. English de.alers name—Pennantes, or Pennants Parrot. German name— Pennants SiUich. ROSE-BILL PARRAKEET (Platycercus eximius), Nf.w South Wales. (Illustrated.) Psitlacus exiinius (Russ), Psitlacus copilatus, Psitlacus oninicotor. English dealers name—Kosella. German name— Bunt- sittich. PALE-HEADED PARRAKEET (Platycercus pallidiceps), North-east Australia. (Illustrated.) P.Ulacus palliceps (Russ), Platycercus palliccfs, Platycercus ca-lestis, Conuru^ palliceps. English dealers name—Blue Rosell.1. German name—* Blasskopfiger Buntsitlich. Cassells Canaries Sc Cage Birds.
Text Appearing After Image:
^w^ii^, I. TU R qu 0 IS I N E PARRAKEET. Z-MVIANY COLOURED PARRAKEET. MALL. Z 00 FEMALE, T&icent Brook;llaylSonLitli Blue-Bonnet and Red-Rumped Parrakeet. 437 A very interesting and charming bird is the next: THE BLUE-BONNET PARRAKEET (Psephotus hmmatogasier), Australia. (Illustration drawn from live specimen at the Zoological Gardens, London.) Psittacus hcematogasler (Russ), Platycercus hamatogaster, Psephotus humatorrhous, Eupheina hamatogasler. English dealers name—Blue-bonnet Parrakeet. German name— Blutbauchsittich. I do not know a more pleasing Parrakeet than the Blue Bonnet, whom I used to considerthe clown of a collection of Parrakeets I had at one time. A pair of these birds used to playtogether like kittens, rolling over and over in the sand, or sitting on the perches and cawing toeach other in the most amusing manner. Whenever their cage was fresh sanded, they pickedout all the small stones, and cleverly arranged them in a row on a ledge in their cage. Thisrare Parr

Note About Images