THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 739. — January, 1903. 



PARROT BUILDING IN THE OPEN: AT PARK 

 HILL, NEW FOREST. 



By W. F. Rawnsley. 

 Communicated by F. DuCane Godman, D.C.L., F.E.S. 



(Plate I.) 



In the ' Avicultural Journal ' of November, 1900, there 

 appeared a short account of the nest which our Parrot had built 

 on the roof of the farmhouse at Pondhead, a small property 

 attached to Park Hill, Lyndhurst. As the Parrot has, alas ! 

 disappeared, and the nest must in time disappear also, I propose 

 to give a fuller account of this unique and interesting structure, 

 with illustrations of it in various stages of its growth, which 

 have been taken by, and are obtainable from, Mr. F. G. Short, 

 of Lyndhurst. 



The Parrot, a South American bird, known as Myiopsittacus 

 monachus, and often called the Quaker Parrot, from its grey 

 head and breast, is elsewhere of an apple-green, with very 

 pointed tail and wings, and about ten inches in length from 

 beak to tail. It was caught by my farm -bailiff in the heather of 

 the open forest close to the farm in August, 1899; and, as it 

 disappeared about the time fixed for the Coronation (June 26th, 

 1902), its history, as far as we know it, extends over rather less 

 than three years, during the last two of which it had been flying 

 at liberty round the farm. 



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