ASK-COLOURED AND RED PARROT. 
Tliis appearance, whatever idea it might 
convey to tlie mind of BiifFon, was unques- 
tionably an exa6l delineation of nature, taken 
by Edwards., with his usual fidelity, and which 
we have as faithfully copied from that excel- 
lent naturalist. 
That this, and other Cinereous Parrots va- 
riegated with red, are all originally of the 
common Grey Parrot family, we incline to 
believe ; their forms and habits are the same, 
and there seems no other difference than the 
diversity of feathers. 
Many have been the disputes, w^hether Grey 
or Green Parrots possess, in general, the 
greatest powers of speech: and numberless 
stories are gravely related of each, by their, 
respe6live admirers, wdiich imply not only the 
faculty of speech, but the presence of intelle6l ; 
not only imitation and memory, but thought 
and mind. These absurdities we are not at all 
disposed to promulge ; nor can we venture to 
decide, from our own knowledge, which plu- 
mage has the pre-eminence. Like arguments re- 
spedl- 
