BIRDS. 



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'"By Jove ! what a lot of parrots." It is hardly necessary to say that he 

 was awarded the prize. 



The macaws, of which there is a large number, are American birds, 

 but birds with almost nothing attractive about them. Their voices are 

 -extremely harsh, and they never talk well. Bright colored they are, but 



Fig. 438. — Red-faced love-bird (Agapornis roseicollis). 



such colors and such arrangements of color ! The lack of harmonv between 

 the different shades could not be worse were they to run loose in a painter's 

 shop, and to tumble into one pot of paint after another. Here is a patch 

 of blue, and right beside it is a large daub of red, and then comes green 

 and yellow. The whole is an outrage to every artistic sense, but doubtless 

 the birds do not regard it as so horrible. 



