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PARROT. 



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colour : irides blueifh : general colour green, paleft beneath : fore 

 part of the head and throat red : ridge of the wing and the rump 

 blue, but the upper tail coverts are green : upper part of the tail 

 feathers red ; beneath this is a narrow bar of black, and the tips 

 are green ; the two middle feathers wholly green : legs and claws 

 grey. 

 Female. The female is marked much the fame, but the colours not Co 



ftrong : the red on the face much paler : and the ridge of the wing 

 yellow. 

 Place anb Thefe birds inhabit Guinea, where they are very common. 



They are alfo found in Ethiopia, the Eaft Indies, and the ifland 

 of Java *. They are remarkable for their affection to each 

 other ; and on the knowledge of this, they are kept by pairs 

 in one cage. The male is ever obliging and affectionate to his 

 confort ; will hull the feeds for her with his bill, and prefent 

 them to her in this flate ; and feems unhappy at a minute's fepa- 

 ration, which is as reciprocal on her fide : a flate which will 

 make even captivity tolerable. If one is fick, the other is me- 

 lancholy ; and if death fhould follow, it is not often that the for- 

 rowful relict furvives long after. They are exported from Africa 

 in great numbers, but not above one in ten furvive the pafTage 

 to Europe, though they often live many years after their arrival. 

 They are kept chiefly for their external beauty and docility of 

 manners, rather than any thing elfej for they do not talk, and the 

 noife they make is far from agreeable. 



* We hear of them likewife at Surinam, of which place they are not natives ; 

 for M. Ferritin fpeaks of them by the name of Perrucbedc Guinh. Defer, de 

 Surinam, ii. p. 178. 



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