74 BED AND BLUE MAG AW. 



into the double mistake of saying that ''''its eggs are spotted as in the 

 Partridge", for the eggs of the latter bird, as is very well known, are 

 of a uniform olive colour, without a spot of any kind, and those of 

 the Macaw are pure white, which- we believe, without any exception, 

 is the colour of the eggs of every species of the family, whether found 

 in the old world or the new. 



