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CAROLINA PARROT.— Cojulnis CaroUnrnsis. 



are favourite food of tlie Carolina Parrot, which is said to eat apples, Ijiit probahlj' only bites 

 tlieni oft' their stems for -wantonness, as it drops them to the ground and there lets them 

 lie undisturbed. 



An idea was and may be still prevalent in its native country, that the brains and 

 intestines of the Carolina Parrot were fatal to cats ; and Wilson after some trouble 

 succeeded in getting a cat and her kittens to feed upon this supposed poisonous diet. 

 The three ate everything excepting the hard bill, and were none the Avorse for their meal. 

 As, however, the I'anot was in this case a tame one, and had been fed upon Indian corn, 

 he conjectured that the wild Parrot which had lived on cockle-burs might be injurious to 

 the cat, although that which had eaten tlie comparatively harmless diet might do no 

 injury. 



The nest of this bird is made in hollow trees. 



One of these Parrots was tamed by Wilson, 

 description of his favourite and her actions : — 



" Anxious to tiy the effects of education on one 

 Bone hick, and which was but slightly wounded in 



who gave the following animated 



of those which I procured at the Big 

 the wing, 1 fixed up a place for it in 



