398 FOREIGN BIRDS. 



The Goatsuckers' notes, too, were now heard again; 

 And the Woodpeckers uttered their dissonant 

 strain. 



two, which it lays twice a year, about the size of a pigeon's; 

 the male and female share alternately the office of incubation. 

 Found within the tropics in America and the West Indies. 

 The JEstivus, Amazon, or Common-Parrot, is green, slightly 

 spotted with yellow ; there are many varieties. The Ochroce' 

 phalus, or Yellow-headed-Parrot, belongs to the class 

 called Criks by the French writers ; this, and the Amazon, or 

 Common Parrot, are, of all the American Parrots, most easily 

 taught to speak. 



The Popinjays are distinguished from all the preceding by 

 having no red on their wings. The Paradisi, or Paradise- 

 Parrot, is a very beautiful species of Popinjay; the whole body 

 is yellow, and all the feathers bordered with a sort of gilding. 



The Paroquets are extremely numerous and diversified ; when 

 properly tamed they are good speakers ; one of this tribe laid 

 once in England five or six small white eggs. The Aureus, or 

 Golden-Paroquet, is a beautiful bird. 



The Carolinensis, Carolina-Parrot, Illinois-Parrot, or Caro- 

 lina-Parakeet, is said by Wilson to be the only one of this nume- 

 rous tribe of birds found native within the territory of the United 

 States ; it is a very hardy bird ; enduring cold much better than 

 the generality of the tribe; it is found, however, chiefly in the 

 states west of the Alleghany mountains. It is said to build in 

 companies in hollow trees. This bird is thirteen inches long, 

 and twenty-one in extent. The general colour of the plumage 

 is a bright, yellowish, silky green, with light blue reflections; 

 lightest and most diluted with yellow below. 



The Cookii, or Cook's-Cockatoo, (Temminck, Linn. 

 Transact, vol. xiii.) is a fine bird, a native of New Holland, 

 a dried specimen of which is to be seen in the museum 



