PARROT. 257 



This species inhabits Mexico, Guiana, and the Caraccas, in South 

 America ; commonly found in woods, and does not often approach 

 inhabited places ; has no note beyond a shrill whistle, which is often 

 repeated in flight. Observed in small numbers together, but are 

 restless and quarrelsome, and if any one is taken, it for the most part 

 refuses food, and at last is starved to death. In general, Parrots, even 

 the most stubborn in nature, are to be subdued by means of smoke of 

 tobacco, but this is only put into bad humour by the attempt ; who- 

 ever, therefore, would have these birds, must train them up young ; 

 and this is scarcely worth labour, if not for the sake of variety ; for 

 they do not learn to talk. 



204— HOODED PARROT. 



Psittacus Caica, Ind. Om. i. 128. Gm. Lin. i. 347. Buf. vi. 253. 



Le Caica Barraband, Levail. Perr. pi. 134. Var. 



Perruche a tete noire, Caica, Buf. vi. 233. PL enl. 744. Levail. pi. 133. 



Hooded Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 306. Shaw's Zool. viii. 542. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill red ; plumage of the 

 head black, giving the appearance of a hood, out of which the eye 

 appears, within an angulated white skin ; round the back of the neck 

 fulvous, but the chin and forepart yellowish ; the rest of the body for 

 the most part green ; but when the wing is closed, seems to be divided 

 longitudinally, as the outer edge of the wing is all the way blue ; 

 tail longer than in the last, the feathers pointed at the ends, the 

 shape rather hollowed out in the middle ; the general colour green, 

 with the end blue ; legs red. 



Inhabits Cayenne : comes there every year in small flocks in 

 September and October, making but short stay: is called there Caica. 

 It may be observed that this and the last differ much from other 

 Parrots, both in make of body, being thick, short necked, and more 



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