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hemispheres, is the parrot of Carolina found as high as 42o 

 in the western states ; and, in the southern hemisphere, the 

 paMols and cockatoos which inhabit New Zealand and the 

 Macquarrie islands, are placed under the 52d degree of lati- 

 tude, as is also the emerald parrakeet of the Straits of Magellan. 

 The first mentioned species, therefore, exists in a latitude equal 

 to that of the central parts of Spain and the Neapolitan terri- 

 tories ; the second, very nearly in the same latitude as that of 

 London. Butjas the temperature of the Austral hemisphere 

 is much less elevated than that of the northern, and as about 

 ten degrees are allowed for comparative temperature, at any 

 given points, in these different parts of the world, it foUoAvs, 

 that the parrots of the Macquarrie islands, and the lands o^ 

 Magellan, are placed in a situation nearly analogous to that of 

 Stockholm. 



In America, Brazil and Guiana are the countries which 

 contain the greatest number of species of parrots, all of them 

 appertaining to the division of parrakeets ; that of the parrots 

 proper, and that of the psittaculi. The maccaws are exclu- 

 sively confined to these countries. It does not appear that 

 any birds of this genus are found on the chain of the Cordil- 

 leras ; they are not very numerous even in Paraguay ; but a 

 single one has been noticed in Patagonia ; and but a single 

 species has been marked by Buffon as peculiar to the Magellanic 

 lands. Some species belong to the islands in the Gulf of 

 Mexico ; and it is not improbable that some may exist in the 

 Floridas, though they have not been indicated. On the other 

 side of the Andes, from Chili to California, none have been 

 noticed ; but many exist in Chili, on the shores of the southern 

 ocean. 



Many birds of this genus belong to the African continent, 

 from Senegal as far as the forests which neighbour on the 

 Cape of Good Hope. They are, however, fewer in number 

 than those of India and America. The Barbary coast, from 



