CHAPTEE XXX. 



PARROTS. 



Their Peculiar Manner of Climbing — Points of Resemblance with Monkeys — 

 Their Social Habits — Their Connubial Felicity — Inseparables — Talent for 

 Mimicry — "Wonderful Powers of Speech and Memory — Their Wide Range within 

 the Temperate Zones — Colour of Parrots Artificially Changed by the South 

 American Indians — The Cockatoos — Cockatoo Killing in Australia — The Macaw 

 —The Parakeets. 



THE parrots have so many points of resemblance with the 

 monkeys in their tastes and habits, that, notwithstanding 

 their different appearance, one might almost be tempted to 

 call them near relations. A constant restlessness is peculiar to 

 both. Most animals love repose after meals, but not so the 

 monkeys and the parrots, who, contrary to the general rule, 

 only remain quiet while they are eating. At other times the 

 former are always in motion, chattering or screaming, hanging 



