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Parrots pair for life, but congregate in great numbers at 

 their roosting- places where they make a deafening noise. The 

 sexes are generally alike, the males being larger and more 

 brightly coloured; but in one species, the Electus of New 

 Guinea, the male is green with red sides, and the female has 

 head, breast, and upper parts bright red. Parrots generally 

 make their nests in holes of trees which they will whittle out 

 with their powerful beaks. Therein are laid the spheroid eggs, 

 white or with a greenish or bluish tinge. They are long-lived. 



Parrots— (Colonial). Psittacidae. 



Red and Yellow Macaw 

 Red and Blue 

 Blue and Yellow 

 *Green ,, 



Eta 

 tRed - fronted Green Macaw 

 (Hahn's) 

 Brown-throated Parakeet 

 ♦fScarlet-tipped Parakeet (bright- 

 eyed) 

 Kissi-Kissi Parakeet 

 Golden-fronted Parakeet 

 '^calv-breasted Parakeet 

 Red-winged Parakeet 

 *tAll-Yellow Parakeet (Roraima 

 Mt.) 

 * (human-voiced) 



Golden -winged Parakeet 

 tGreen red-rumped Parakeet 



J51ack-winged Parakeet 

 t Purple-clad Parakeet 



Amazon Parrot 

 Yellow-cheeked Amazon 



(Screecher) 

 Blue-cheeked Amazon 



(Culu-culu) 

 Green Amazon (Saurama) 

 * 



Red-backed Amazon 

 White-capped ,, 

 Blue-headed Parrot 

 Dusky ,, 



f Fan-crested, or Hawk Parrot 

 (Hya-hya) 



Ant luacao. 

 „ chloroptera. 

 ,, ararauna. 

 ,, severa. 

 ,, macavaanna. 



Iialmi. 

 L\>iiunis acniginosus. 



IcucopJithalinas. 

 ,, solstilialis. 



,, mircus. 



Pyrrhura picta. 

 ,, egregia. 



Bolborhynchiis panychlorus. 

 Brotogcrys tirica. 



clirysuptcrus. 



tuipara. 

 U rochraiiia cingnlata. 



piirpurala. 



henti. 

 Aiuazoiia ochrocephala. 



amazonica. 



,, dufresneana. 



farinosa. 

 ,, bodini. 

 ,, f estiva, 

 aestiva. 

 I'ioniis incnstruus. 

 ,, fuscus. 



Deroptyus accipitrinus, 



