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months of March, April, May, and June ; 
Wi gi'eat variety which I found in the colour of the 
t]j ®*age of the head and neck of both sexes, during 
former of these months, convinces me, that the 
birds do not receive their full colours until the 
foreign countries. 
part of the succeeding summer. 
a|j a*le parrots and paroipicts, from 
j^j***'*! in almost every street of our "large cities, 
l(, I become such great favourites, no attention seems 
(L bave been paid to our own, which in elegance of 
e au^ beauty of plumage is certainly sui)erior to 
IW ’^bem. It wants indeed that disposition for 
()f j®tual screaming and chattering that renders some 
Hip burner pests, not only to their keepers, hut to 
!ilii"bole neighbourhood in which they reside. It is 
C® '*o«'le and sociable; soon beconies perfectly fami- 
g j i aiid^ until eijual pains be taken in its instruction, 
Cbuf^i,. to conclude it incapable of equal improve- 
in the language of man. 
bon little has hitherto 
b and , 
“lilt: ........ ... been known of the disposi- 
lioj b'nl manners of this s|)eeies, the reader will udt, I 
b® displeased at my detailing some of these, in 
in ^bstory of a particular favourite, my sole companion 
a lonesome day’s march. 
tliU^^Sioiis to try the effeids of education on one of 
b>it***l,ybieh 1 procured at Big Bone lick, and which was 
I'of .Sbtly wounded in the wing, I fixed up a place 
Soih** in the stern of my boat, and presented it with 
at) 1 ° nockle burs, which it freely fed on in less than 
'Mw nfter being on board. The intermediate time 
tile '’’’n eatinu and sleeping w.is occupied in gnawing 
Clicks that formed its place of confinement, m 
efe *■ In make a practicable breach ; which it rejieatedly 
by When I abandoned the river, and travelled 
‘.VitT'''^’ 1 "''•apt it up closely in a silk handkerchief, 
ligbtly- around, and carried it in my pocket. 
I stopped for refreshment, I unbound my prisoner, 
kiep^ve it its allowance, n hich it generally despatched 
liUj . great dexterity, unhuskiiig the seeds from the 
*** a twinkling ; in doing which it always employed 
