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and in British Honduras, as well as in the West Indian 

 Islands, but they have been so exhaustively considered 

 elsewhere that we must not sta}- to attend to them any 

 further in the present place. 



The Monk, or Quaker Parrakeet is more common in 

 Monte Video than elsewhere, but stragcrlers have been met 



with in the hinterland of Demerara. It is remarkable for 

 beino- tlie only member of the family that builds itself a 

 nest of sticks among the branches of a tree. It is about 



