INTELLECTUAL AND LMITATIVE FACULTIES 



OF 



PARROTS. 



Among the numerous foreign birds which are 

 imported into Great Britain, the family of Parrots 

 are better known than any others. They are 

 especial pets, from the splendour of their plumage, 

 the extreme docility of their manners, and their 

 great intelligence. 



The sagacity which Parrots exhibit in a state of 

 domestication, is also natural to them in their nativ( 

 forests. They associate together in large flocks, 

 and mutually assault such animals as attempt to 

 attack any individual of their community, and by 

 their courage discomfit their enemy, or intimate an 

 unwelcome intruder by their notes of warning. 



Although many of the feathered tribes have the 

 faculty of imitating the human voice, yet none of 

 them in this respect can be at all compared to 



