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ZOOLOGY 



" cliniliers." In the cockatoos the feathers of the head are 

 elevated to form a crest. In the jDarrots there is no such crest ; 

 in one subchvision the tail is long; in a second, ver}- short. The 

 representati^'es of this faniily are found almost exclusively in 

 the tropics, in Brazil, the Moluccas, and in Australia. In gen- 



FiG. .36.5. — Cnniirna rnrolinr,,. ■,■!.■/, thr rarolinii paroquet. One-fifth nat. 



Slzr. After Wll-ilJIl. 



eral, the.se birds have a loud voice, and certain species may be 

 trained to articulate words and combine them into sentences. 

 There is only one jiarrot native to the United States — the 

 Carolina paroquet (Fig. .36.5). This formerly occurred north 

 to the Ohio River, but it has been within recent years practi- 

 cally exterminated by plumage hunters. 



