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M. D'Azzara has met many pairs of this species, 

 between the twenty-seventh and twenty-ninth 

 degrees of south latitude, and never more to the 

 north. He has, notwithstanding, been assured, 

 that it has been found even as far as thirty- 

 three and a half degrees. It builds not only in the 

 holes of trees, but also, even more frequently, in 

 those which it digs in the perpendicular banks of 

 the rivers Parana and Urugay. It has nearly the 

 same habits and cry as its congeners; but it may 

 be taught many things. An individual which 

 Vieillot saw alive at Paris, imitated perfectly the 

 human voice, the cry of Parrakeets, and the 

 various noises which it heard. It was very merry, 

 docile, and affectionate. 



