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fly in troops ; inhabit both woods and mountains ^ fome have red heads, 

 fome white, fome arc yellow, 



THE C R I K S 



AVE a little red on their wings, but never on the end; their 

 green plumage h flat and yellow i fh ; the yellow on their heads is 

 dull, and mixed with other colours j they are much imaller than mackaws, 

 and are the commoneft of all parrots ; they are much like the amazons 

 in manners, and both, in many refpefts, conform to the mackaws. 

 Cotton feed makes thefe (and all) parrots drunk ; as alfo do fumes of 

 tobacco, which the Indians blow into their bills, in which (late they are 

 lefs wild, and more manageable. Some criks are yellow-necked, fome 

 powdered, fome have blue faces, fome blue heads, and fome violet 

 heads. 



THE POPPINJx^YS 



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R E lefs than the amazons, and have no red in their wings i are 

 of various colours, yellow, red, and mottled. 



The long and the (hort-tailed P A R O QU E T S of the new world, 

 are extremely various, beautiful, docile, and entertaining. 



PARROTS are formed alike, their roes two before and two be- 

 hind for climbing and holding ; ftrong hooked bills for breaking nuts and 

 hard fubftances, on which they feed j and loud harfh voices, by which they 

 fill their native woods with clamour. Their toes are remarkable, which 

 appears when they walk or climb, and when eating. To climb, they ftretch 

 two of their toes forward and two backward ; but when they feed, they bring 

 the food to their mouths with their foot, and dextcroufly turn the greater 

 hind toe forward, io as firmly to gi'afp the nut or fruit, (landing ail the 

 while on the other leg. Other animals turn their meat inwards to the 

 mouth ; whereas, thefe turn their n.cat outwards, and thus hold the hardeft 

 nuts, as if in one hand, till with their bills they break the fliell, and 

 extrafl the kernel. Tile bill has gieat peculiarities, for both chaps are 

 moveable. In mod other birds, t.'je upper chap unites with the Ikull ; 



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