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assured mo, scarcely ever observe them in that quartet- 
In passing from that place to Nashville, a distance e’ 
two hundred miles, I neither heard nor saw auv, 
at a place called Madison’s lick. In passing on, 1 neX* 
met with them on the hanks and rich flats of the Te'*' 
nessec river : after this, I saw no more till I reache'| 
Bayo St Pierre, a distance of .several hundred niiP^' 
from all which circumstances, I think we cannot, ffe"^ 
the residence of these birds, establish with propritf' 
any correct standard by which to Judge of the cotf” 
Itarative temperatures of diflerent ciimates. , 
In descending the river Oliio, by myself, in the mool 
of February, 1 met with the lirst'flock of paroquets,’ 
the mouth of the Little Sioto. I had been inform*^’’ 
by an old and respectable inhabitant of Marietta, 
they u'ere sometimes, though rarely, seen there, 
observed flocks of them, afterwards, at the moutb of 
Great and Little Miami, and in the neighbourhood ® 
numerous creeks that (lis(harge themselves into i®. 
Ohio. At Big Bone lick, thirty miles above the mold® 
of Kentucky river, I .saw them in great numbers. Thw 
came screaming through the woods in the morni''r! 
about .an hour after suurise, to drink the salt water, 
which they, as well as the pigeons, are remarkably to""' 
\V'heu they aliglited on the ground, it a|)peared at ’ 
distance as if covered with a carpet of the rh-hest grea"; 
orange, and yellow: they afternards settled, in 
body, on a neighbouring tree, which stood detacbe^ | 
fi-om any other, covering almost every twig of it, aa’ | 
the sun, shining strongly on their 'gay and glow 
plumage, produced a very beautiful and splendid appaa*” 
ance. Here I had an opportunity of observing 
very particular traits of their character : having 
dou-n a number, some of which M ere only woiu'da®’ 
the whole Ihjck swept repeatedly around their prostrate 
companions, and ag-ain settled on a low tree, wit*"!* 
tM-enty yards of the s])ot where I stood. At 
successive discharge, though showers of them fell, , ' 
the affection of the survivors seemed rather to iiicreas'; > 
for, after a few circuits around the place, they ao’*’ 
