220 . FEATHERED FRIENDS. 



The lady from whom I acquired my bird gave as 

 her reason for parting with it that she was afraid it 

 would corrupt her old Grey Parrot and teach it to 

 scream, which the Young Widow was well qualified 

 to do. I forget now how long, exactly, I kept the 

 creature, but a matter of two or three years, I think, 

 during which it lived in the outdoor aviary without 

 ailing; and there, I thought, it did not scream 

 as much as it had done during the first few days of 

 our acquaintance, when I had tried to keep it indoors ; 

 or it may be that its yells were not so noticeable in 

 the open air as they certainly were in the house. 



The scientific name of the Grey-breasted, Monk, or 

 Quaker Parrakeet is Bolborhynchus monachus. 



