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The gaudy macaw (Fig. 63) and the brilliant 

 green parrots are like nothing that lives in 

 northern forests. I seldom saw the parrots that 

 I heard shrieking overhead. Their green feathers 



Fig. 63. A gaudy macaw 



are too much like the leaves among which they 

 perch. Thomas Belt, who studied animals in the 

 rainy tropics a good many years ago, tells of seeing 

 a single green parrot sitting in a tuft of green 

 leaves. When he ,shot at the parrot the whole 



