YELLOW-FACED PARROC^ET. 
Yellowy- Faced Parroquet, we may add, that it 
appears to be about thirteen niches in length-, 
from the point of the bill to the extremity of 
the tail ; that it is a native of America, and 
migrates, annually, in summer, to a more nor- 
thern clime than is usual with this genus ; that 
it is found in Brasil, and other parts of the tro- 
pical regions of America, and even passes the 
winter in the southern countries on the Missi- 
sippi, but in summer is seen almost as high a5 
Lake Michigan ; that it is gregarious ; that it 
feeds on Chesnuts, Peas, and other seeds and 
fruits ; that it forms it's nest in the large hills 
of Ants or Termites ; that it is very active, 
but a bad scholar in learning to spea^k; and 
that the flesh is eaten in America. 
BufFon observes, that this bird is very com- 
mon in Guiana, wdiere the Psittacus Canicularis 
of Linnsus, which has been confounded with 
it, is never seen. At Cayenne, he says, it is 
vulgarly called the Wood- Louse Parroquet ; 
because it generally lodges in the holes where 
the Wood-Louse nestles. " It remains," he as- 
serts, the whole year in Guiana ; and frequents 
the savannas, and the cleared lands. It is very 
improbable,'* 
