I'AKKOTS, 



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except a small quantity at the bottom, on whicli 

 tile eggs are laixl, uad tUe youi^g; ones afterwards 

 repose. 



It was related to tae, that fomerly Mul^ 

 iitad^ of Perots would bes^t a oi pt^n^ m 

 to oblige a settl er to employ a number of men 



ex])ressly to drive them away ; and even then it 

 was done with dihiculty. ThU is now rare : 

 which circumstance is not attrihuted to any de- 

 popiaMoiiof the Polly** trilje, butfrotacuitfTa* 



tion liuA iiig become more extended ; the parrot 

 ])o[)ulatioii heing now divided in flocks aliont 

 the (liferent fields, when formerly they made 

 their formidable attacks upon one or two only, 

 and th^ ia^iicli nttmbm, tot, liSt toidistiii*bed 

 for only a few hours, it would suffice to destroy 

 the hopes of the si tth'r, at all events ffU' tlmt 

 season. It was computed that thirty or forty 

 thousand of these birds were about the field at 

 me tix^e ; and fr^m wltat I ^-w, 1 do not con- 

 sider the numbers were exa^&rat^. It h itt>t 

 only ripe grain that suffers from them, but, when 

 it eoniincnees to vegetate, tliev assenilde in im- 

 mense flocks, to root up and tlevour it. Tlie 

 Loi:^ sold to imigrate h^m the Tas country in 

 tli0 atuiciDa^tt it^mvmg in ik& wiiiter iseasi^n: 

 whether for food, o? from what cause I could not 

 asceitainr 



