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•44 ILLINOIS PARROT. 



north /<»/.. 41. 7 *. Dr. Forfier faw, in the raw, rainy latitude oiDuJky 

 Bay, in New Zealand, 46 fouth, two kinds. In the neighborhood of 

 Botany Bay, in New Holland, in fouth /«/. 34, five fpecies were difco- 

 vered ; among which, the greater variety of the fulphur-crefted Co^^a- 

 /ffo appeared in amazing mukitudes. But what is moil wonderful,, 

 a fmall fpecies of this tender genus is to be met with as low as Port 

 Famine, in the ftreights 01 Magellan, m. north lat. 53. 44 f, in flocks 

 innumerable. They inhabited the vaft forefts of the country. Their 

 food muft be confined to buds and berries ; for no fort of fruit- 

 trees have been obferved there. The forefts likewife were frequently- 

 bounded by mountains, probably cloathed with eternal fnow. 



* Barrington's Mifcellanies, 489. 491. 



■f See Spilbergen' s 'voy. in Purchas, i. 80; Wotid'sj in Dampier' s nioy.'w. Ii2j and. 

 Byron's, in Haiakfi.vortFs Coll. i. 38. Befides thefe authorities, Lieut. Gore (fince Cap- 

 tain) and Mr. Edwards, now furgeon at Caernarvon, who failed with Mr. Byron, con— 

 firined to me the exiftence of thefe birds in the ftreights oiMagfllan, 



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