3 o6 PARROT. 



thighs, and vent, yellowifh orange brown : quills blue ; the very 

 edges green. 

 Place Inhabits Mexico, Guiana, and the Carraccas, in South America^ 



AND . 



Manners. It ] s commonly found in woods, and does not frequently ap- 

 proach the inhabited parts : it makes no other noife than a ffirill 

 whittle, which it often repeats in its flight, and does not learn to 

 talk. 



Thefe birds fly in fmall numbers together, but are perpetually 

 quarrelling with one another : and if any one is taken, it refufes 

 all food, till at laft it is ftarved to death. Parrots of the moft 

 ftubborn nature are often fubdued by means of the fmoke of to- 

 bacco ; but this bird is only put into bad humour by the attempt. 

 Whoever, therefore, would have thefe Parrots, mult train them 

 up young ; and this would fcarce be worth while, were it not for 

 the fake of variety. 



Buffon obferves, that this bird and the following differ much 

 from other Parrots, being of a heavy, dull nature ; are thick, 

 fhort-necked, and the body more thick and fhorter than in other 

 Parrots : and the feathers are alfo clofer fet on the body, and ap- 

 pear, in fliort, as if artificially fattened, efpecially on the breatt 

 and under parts. 



113. Le Caica, Buf. eif. vi. p. 253. 



HOODED Perruche a tece noire de Cayenne, Pi. enl. 744. 



PARROT. 



Description. HTHE bill is fed: length of the bird eight inches and a half. 

 The head is covered with a hood of black, out of which the 

 eye appears, which is furrounded by a white fkin angulated be- 

 fore and behind ; the black part proceeds on each fide to the 



under 



