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THREE parts of this well-ilustrated work on parrots kept in captivity have already been published, and considering the extent to which these splendidly coloured and interesting birds are to be found domesticated in our country, this treatise on their habits will no doubt be very acceptable to many of our readers. The directions given as to their food seem based on practical experience, and will be welcome to some who in this respect may have wrongly treated some favourite bird. The author insists pretty strongly on not characterising a species by the behaviour of an individual, fairly arguing that it is just as wrong to declare that all the cockatoos are noisy and spiteful or that all the lories are amiable and well-behaved as it would be to declare that all Englishmen are lively or all Frenchmen sad because persons of these nations had been met with having these characteristics.
Parrots in Captivity.
By W. T. Greene, and with Notes on several of the Species by the Hon. and Rev. F. G. Dutton. Coloured Plates. (London: George Bell and Sons, 1883.)
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Parrots in Captivity . Nature 28, 611 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028611b0
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