BRASILIAN GREEN MACCAW. 
therefore, that the bird can suffer no rivals 
whatever m it's mistress's favour, and that it's 
jealousy is founded on attachment : accordingly, 
it takes no notice, when it sees an indifferent 
person fondle a child. 
" It eats nearly the same things that we do. 
It is particularly fond of bread, beef, fried nsh, 
pastry, and sugar; but it seems to prefer roasted 
apples, which it swallows greedily. It cracks 
nuts with it's bill, and picks them dextrously 
with it's claws. It does not chew the soft fruits ; 
but sucks their., by pressing it's tongue against 
the upper mandible : and, with respecl to the 
harder sorts of foods, such as bread, pastrv, ^c. 
it bruises or chews them, by pressing the tip of 
the lower mandible on the most hollow part of 
the upper. But, whatever be the nature of it's 
food, it's excrements are always green, and 
mixed w ith a sort of white chalky substance, as 
in most other birds; except when it is sick, and 
then they assume an orange or deep yellow cast. 
*' Like all the other Parrots, tlie Green Ara uses 
it's claws with great dcxtericv- It bends for- 
ward the hind toe, to lay hold of the \rm::^ and 
otlicr morsels which are given to it, and to 
carry 
