in the Year 1801 prbduted a young one at Uorne. 31^ 



These birds had already begun their amours. No rea- 

 sons were able to persuade him to recall his orders. I was 

 therefore obliged to suffer them to depart : happily they 

 sustained no injurv by the wav, , 



I therefore employed the only resource that remained ; 

 ■v\hich was, to request him to take every possible care ot' 

 them ; to cause materials for building their nests to be 

 placed w ithin their reach ; and to transmit to me a journal 

 of ever)' thing that might take place. I even delivered to 

 him a small memorandum in regard to the observations 

 which I more particularly wished him to make. 



He informed me, that on the '2 1st of June the female 

 deposited her first egg; that on the 25th she deposited an- 

 other; and on the 29th a third. I flattered myself with 

 the happiest success ; but though the female sat on thcn> 

 continually, after the term of forty days, w hich we found 

 the preceding years to be the term of incubation, observing 

 that the iirst egg had been dragged o^it of the nest, and that 

 the other two had been bruised, we thought proper to exa- 

 mine them; and the following is a literal traiisljiion of the 

 proces-verbiil, written in Italian, which was sent to me ou 

 the occasion : 



*' We the undersigned, phvsieian and surgeon of tb« 

 town of Orvieto, declare to whom it may conc<'.rn, that we 

 saw in the house of J. A. Passeri, governor of the town, 

 two parrots of the kind called Amazons, viz. a male and 

 a. female, and that on a requisition from the said governor 

 we paid several visits to these birds after the female seemed 

 ready to lay. We observed that the f'emalo on the 21st of 

 June 1802 deposited an egg iu a nest which she had con- 

 structed under a chest of drawers, and lined with linen ra^s 

 which liad been placed within her reach. 



" On the 2jth of the same month she deposited a se- 

 cond, and on the 2yth a third. 



" We observed that the female sat on the ctjgs, and that 

 she continued to do so with great assiduity, ancfthat during 

 the whole time the male supplied her with food. 



" On the ibth of July we observed the iirst ego- she had 

 laid to be w ithout the nest : a small round hole," suspected 

 to have been made by the beak of the nwther, was found 

 in one side of it. On this egg being opened, nothing was 

 found in it but a little coagulated matter in one corner, al- 

 most black, and putrid, without any appearance of an em- 

 bryo. 



" On the 2'2d of the same month we examined one of 

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