no o^s^iTHOLogr. BookII. 



Winters, unlefs they be kept in Stoves or hot places : And whereas in their own 

 Country, to wit, the Indies , they are much upon the Wing, with us by reafon of the 

 inclemency and fbarpnefs of the Air they grow torpid and una&ive, and lefs fit for 

 flight. They are (aid to be very long-lived. 



They breed in hollow trees ( witnels Marggravim, Lerius, and Pifo ) where they 

 make a round hole outwardly, and lay two or three Eggs, like to Pigeons, without 

 any made Neft, as Marggravius faith : Lerius affirms, that they do build Nefts fuffi- 

 ciently firm and hard, of a round orbicular figure. Whence it is manifeft that they 

 do not hang their Nefts upon the flender twigs of Trees, as Cadamufius and others 

 have delivered. For that bird which hangs its Neft on this fafhion, called by the Bra- 

 fil/ans Guira tangeima, as Marggravius writes, is much different from the Parrot. 

 Though you touch her Eggs yet will not the Parrot forfake them, but hatch them 

 £^r 0p,e ° f notwithftanding; Parrots are made of feveral colours by the *Tapity£, by plucking 

 them when they are young, and then ftaining their skins with divers colours. Thefe 

 the Portngues call counterfeit Parrots. Which thing if it be true ( for to me indeed 

 it feems not probable ) it is to no purpofe to diftinguifh P^m^r by thediverfityof 

 colour, fith therein they may vary infinitely. 



In all Parrots that I have hitherto oblerved the Nofthrils were round, fituate in 

 the upper part of the upper Chap, clofe by the feathers, and very near one to 

 another. 



Parrots in refpect of bignefs may be divided into three kinds, viz.the greatefi i mean- 

 Jized, and leafi. 



The greatefi are equal in bignefs to our common Raven: or (as Aldrovandus faith ) 

 to a well-fed Capon 5 and have long Tails : In Englijh they are called Macaos and Cocka- 

 toons. The middle or meanfized and moft common Parrots are as big or bigger than 

 a Pigeon, have fhort Tails, and are called in Englifh, Parrots and Poppinjayes. The 

 leaji are of the bulk of a Blackbird or a Lark, have very long Tails, and are called in 

 Englifh Parakeet os. 



Chap. II. 

 Of thegreatefl fort offarrots called Maccaws and Cockatoons. 



§. I. 



* Aldrovandus his greatefi blue and yellow Maccaw. 



s He body of this equals a well-fed Capons. 4 From the tip of the Bill to the 

 end of the Tail it was two Cubits long. The Bill hooked, and in that mea- 

 fure that it made an exact femicircle, being outwardly conformed into the per- 

 fect roundnefs of half a ring, a full Palm long 3 and where it begins as thick within 

 half an inch, if you meafure both Mandibles. The upper Mandible is almoft two 

 inches longer than the nether, which on the lower fide downward is convex and 

 round. The whole Bill is black. The Eyes white and black. Three black lines 

 drawn from the Bill to the beginning of the Neck, reprefenting the figure of the 

 letter S lying, compafs „the eyes underneath. The Crown of the Head is flat, and 

 of a green colour. The Throat adorned with a kind of black ring. The Breaff, 

 Belly, Thighs, Rump, and Tail underneath all of a Saffron colour. The Neck 

 above, Back, Wings, and upper fide of the Tail of a very pleafant blue or azure. 

 The Tail eighteen inches long more or lefs. The Legs very fhort, thick, and of a 

 dusky or dark colour, as are alio the Feet, the Toes long, armed with great, crooked 

 black Talons. 



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