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account of the successful raising of some young 

 Amazon Parrots at Rome in the year 1801* The 

 account is given in the publication entitled Maga- 

 zin Encyclopedique^ vol. 4. 



In the year 1789 Monsr. Passeri purchased a 

 pair of Amazon Parrots, the female of which, in 

 the year 1793, laid two eggs, and in the three or 

 four succeeding years regularly laid two or three 

 eggs, which she sat on assiduously, being regularly 

 attended and fed by the male: the eggs however 

 were unproductive. At length, in the year 1 800, 

 Monsr. Passeri retired to Rome, where the Parrots 

 were kept in a warm room, with a southern aspect. 

 In the month of June the female again laid two 

 eggs, which she sat on for the space of forty-one 

 days. On the fifteenth of July one of the eggs 

 hatched; but the young bird died the next morn- 

 ing, and the female forsook the remaining egg. 

 In the spring of the year 1801 the female laid three 

 eggs, which she diligently sat on ; and in the even- 

 ing of the twenty-fourth of June one of the eggs 

 hatched ; after which the male frequently brought 

 food to the female, which immediately divided it 

 with her young, which continued many days un- 

 feathered and with its eyes closed. On the twelfth 

 of Jtuly it screamed, and the male immediately 

 - brought it food. On the fourteenth it opened its 

 eyes, and its feathers began to appear : on the six- 

 teenth it was covered with plumes, which were 

 fully expanded by the twenty-second: on the 

 twenty-fourth the green quill-feathers were con- 

 spicuous, and after forty days the bird was in corn- 

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