CAROLINA PARROT.— CoMwrt/s Carolinensls. 



are favourite food of the Carolina Parrot, which is said to eat apples, but probably only bites 

 them off their stems for wantonness, as it drops them to the ground and there lets them 

 lie undisturbed. 



An idea was and may be still prevalent in its native country, that the brains and 

 intestines of the Carolina Parrot were fatal to cats ; and Wilson after some trouble 

 succeeded in getting a cat and her kittens to feed upon tliis supposed poisonous diet. 

 The three ate everything excepting the hard bill, and were none the worse for their meal. 

 As, however, the Parrot was in this case a tame one, and had been fed upon Indian corn, 

 he conjectured that the wild Parrot which had lived on cockle-burs might be injurious to 

 the cat, although that which had eaten the comparatively harmless diet might do no 

 injury. 



The nest of this bird is made in hollow trees. 



One of these Parrots was tamed by Wilson, who gave the following animated 

 description of his favourite and her actions : — 



" Anxious to try the effects of education on one of those which I procured at the Big 

 Bone Lick, and which was but slightly wounded in the wing, I fixed up a place for it in 



