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,,f tli- primal \ :nid *.-.-.. n. lary feather* of tin- wiuo. tli-ir ii 

 (BMnish- black I ' *. :;...:!.. I.. ,. K ,i, ! -I,- . i; ]- ,;:..,.-!!..,!. .|. . ) t mi-, i, i.-l 



an.) tli-- -h"M. -|u:ii- tail is green. -\i--j.t tli- outermost feather*, which are edged with blu- 

 On all th- tail f-at hers, except the central, there b a spot of pale red near the IBM. The bill 

 is large and flesh-color- . I 



I'u K A M AZON ORKKX PARROT la the specie* most commonly 

 and is even a better conversationalist than th- last iitii.in-.| -|--.-i.- 



It is ahandi 



hint. 



it is n native of Southern America, un-l .-.)-. i:ill\ fr-.|n-nt> th- bunks of hn Amamn. It i- 

 however, BO retiring in 





habits as that bird, and will 

 often lea\- the woods for th- 

 sake of preying UJMHI th-oi; ; 

 plantations, among which it 



work- L'I'-at ka\ ix l'~ llesl i- 



made in the decayed trunks of 

 trees. 



\- , j-neral fai f, it in nol 

 so apt at learning and repeat- 

 ing i >h rases aa the Gray Pan . <t . 

 but I have known more than 

 one instance where its powers 

 of speech could hardly be 

 exceeded, and very seldom 

 rivalled. One of these birds 

 which used to live in a little 

 garden into which my window 

 looked, was, on our first en- 

 trance into the house, the cause 

 of much perplexity to ourselves 

 and the sen-ants. The nursery- 

 maid's name was Sarah, ami the 

 unfortunate girl was continu- 

 ally running up and down stairs, 

 fancying herself called by one 

 of the children in distress. The 

 voice of the Parrot was just 

 that of a child, and it would 

 call Sarah in every imaginable 

 tone, varying from a mere enunciation of the name, as if in conversation, to angry remon- 

 strances, jietulant j-e-vMmesa, or sudden terror. 



Kv-n after we had been well accustomed to the bird, we were often Htartled by th- sharp 

 cry of "Sarah! Sa-rah, Sa . . . rah ! " Presently it would cry, "Sarah, lay the dot h ;" and 

 after a while. "Sarah, why <tonV you lay the cloth I" always contriving to get the name of 

 that domestic into its sentences. 



Th- end of the poor bird was rather tragic. It was the proi-erty of a very irritable master, 

 from whom th- an-iy cri-- for Sarah wen- probably learned. He was ven fond of his Parrot, 

 but on- day. in j-lavinir with her, he teased her so far beyond h-r i-ati.-nc.-. th it his 



finger ; w DflNOpon, ia a tit of passion, he seized her by the neck and dashed her on the ground 

 so hard, that she died on the SJM.I. 



.in the K-stiv- Parrot it may easily 1- distinguished, not only for im toner rf, il 

 barelv twelve inches in length, but by the different arrangement of th- coloring. The whol- of 

 th- ci.-k^. chin, and the angles at the base of the bill an- yellow, th- fon-head is deep 1 

 purple, and th- feathers of the back of the head and uaj-- of the neck are green, edged 



AMATOJC ORKKK PAEWJT 



