LORIES. 953 
In India and Africa, the Parrots, Cocka- 
toos, and Lories; and in South America, 
the Macaws, share with Monkeys and Ser- 
pents the dominion of the forests, and mingle 
their screams with the screams and chatter- 
ing of the former, and the hisses of the 
latter. In each of these three descriptions 
of animals, the numbers and the variety are 
alike, and alike countless and indescribable. 
These White Parrots (Lories) are seen in 
the burning regions of Ethiopia; in the Kast 
Indies, they are of the largest size; in South 
America, they are docile and talkative; in 
all the islands of the Pacific Sea and the In- 
dian Ocean, they swarm in great variety and 
abundance, and add to the splendour of 
those woods which Nature has dressed in 
eternal green ! 
The beautiful House and Cage in the 
Zoological Garden, containing the rich as- 
semblage of beautiful Macaws, boasts as 
its most splendid specimen of the whole, the 
Red and Blue Macaw,* a native of the 
Brazil and the West Indies, presented to 
the Society by the Donna Maria da Gloria, 
* Macrocercus Macao. 
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