THE AUSTRALIAN PAROQUET. 



Paroquet is the name generally given to the 

 smaller kinds of parrots, from which birds the species 

 .placed under this head do not otherwise differ than 

 in size : the term is somewhat arbitrarily applied, so 

 that you will frequently have the same bird called at 

 one time a parrot, at another a paroquet, as might 

 be expected, there being no exact boundary line to 

 divide the larger from the lesser kinds. 



