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agent, to administer it by the first opportunity, 
write me the result ; but I have never yet heard tr® 
him. A respectable lady near the town of 
and on whose word I can r<>ly, assured me, that > 
herself had made the e.vperiment, and that, whate'^^ 
might be the cause, the cat had actually died either ^ 
that or the succeeding day. A French planter R , 
Bayo Fourche jiretended to account to me for this 
hy positively asserting, that the seeds of the 
burs on which the paroquets so eageidy feed, '’‘,j 
deleterious to cats; and thus their death was prod"' ^ 
hy eating the intestines of the bird. These a”* ..[j, 
might easily have been ascertained on the spot, " 
however, a combination of trilling circumstances 1 j 
vented me from doing. I several times carried a ® 
of the first description in my pocket tilt it 
insufierahle, without meeting with a suitable 
on whom, like other ])rofessional gentlemen, I rA'r 
conveniently make a fair experiment. jjj, 
I was equally unsuccessful in my endeavours 
manner of hun<- j|, 
- in'! 
hollow trees ; and several affirmed to me that theV „ 
- -lie 
cover the time of iucuhation or 
among these birds. All agreed that they brc 
iiiiA 
seen their nests. Some said they carried in no ■- .jj,; 
rials ; others that they did. Some made the eggs 
others speckled. Oue man assured me that he cut d®. ,j, 
a large heeoh tree, which was hollow, and in 
he found tlie broken fragments of upwards of 
paroquet eggs, which were of a greenish yellow c‘> j||i' 
The nests, though destroyed in their texture 
falling of the tree, appeared, he said, to be for'V''^ 
small twigs glued to each other, and to the si ‘jp 
the tree, in the manner of the chimney sn allo" - 
added, that if it were the proper season, he could 1^ j,!., 
out to me the weed from which they procure” 
gluey matter. From 
in/oi iviiicu Tuev pruii*'*' 
all these contradictory acre .jj 
. bH’ 
That they 
think highly probable, from the numerous disse' 
nothing certain can he deduced, except that th 
in companies, in hollow trees. That they * 
incubation late in summer, or very early 
