BRITAIN'S PRINCESSES
BUDGERIGAR AS PET TEACHING BIRD TO SPEAK LONDON, March I Princess Elizabeth is training a young Australian budgerigar arid, with the help of her sister. Princess Margaret Rose, she has already taught to say a number of words. She is now trying to teach it to say a complete sentence. The Princess is very patient, spending half an hour daily on the task after her lessons. The Queen sometimes looks on. The bird is one of 40 budgerigars in an aviary built for Queen Alexandra at Buckingham Palace. The Princesses read up all they can on the bird's habits and haunts in Australia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22981, 8 March 1938, Page 11
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105BRITAIN'S PRINCESSES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22981, 8 March 1938, Page 11
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