 | 1855 - 518 pages
...are often kept as pets. That handsome bird the Malacca ring parrakeet is not uncommon in Labuan. They are to be seen in the early morning flying about above...and smell of turpentine. The specimen from which the description is taken, was shot when feeding upon the seeds of the Dillenia speciosa, a shrub about... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...above the tops of the trees in small flocks of six or eight, uttering in their flight a loud cmick scream, very much like the note of the common swift....and smell of turpentine. The specimen from which the description is taken, was shot when feeding upon the seeds of the Dillenia speciosa, a shrub about... | |
 | East India Company. Museum, Frederic Moore, Thomas Horsfield - Birds - 1858 - 816 pages
...represented to be endowed with a supernatural degree of intelligence." " These handsome Parrakeets are not uncommon in Labuan, and are to be seen in...spite of their pungent taste and smell of turpentine. A specimen was shot while feeding upon the seeds of the DiUenia speciosa, a shrub about 10 or 15 feet... | |
 | East India Company. Museum, Frederic Moore, Thomas Horsfield - Birds - 1858 - 338 pages
...represented to be endowed with a supernatural degree of intelligence." " These handsome Parrakeets are not uncommon in Labuan, and are to be seen in...open, and eat the curious crumpled cotyledons, in epite of their pungent taste and smell of turpentine. A specimen was shot while feeding upon the seeds... | |
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They are to be seen in the early morning flying about above the tops of the trees in small flocks of six or eight, uttering in their flight a loud quick scream, very much like the note of the common swift. They are particularly fond of the fruit of the... 