Parrots. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



PARROTS. 



Their Peculiar Manner of Climbing — Points of Kesemblance 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. 



As the monkey seldom or never sets his foot on even ground, 

 but climbs or springs from branch to branch, thus also the 

 parrot will rarely be seen walking; his flight is rapid, but 

 generally only of short duration, so that evidently neither the 



