CAROLINA PARROT. 
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1) Until about the beginning or middle of March, 
those parts wholly green, except the front and 
^**ks, which are orange red in them as in the full 
L ?'’** birds. Towards the middle of March the yellow 
'Sins - 
■Ha, 
to 
appear, in detached feathers, interspersed 
the green, varying in dili'erent individuals. In 
"higii I killed about the last of that mouth, only 
II, green feathers remained amono’ the yellow ; and 
c), 'vere fast assuming the yellow tint : for the colour 
11, "Sns without change of plumage. A juiniher of 
birds, in all their grades of progressive change 
HiI** Si’iien to yellow, have been deposited in Mr Peale’s 
il^iirn. 
ij,^bat is called by Europeans the Illinois parrot 
ia, pertinax) is evidently the young bird in its 
colours. Mliether the present species be 
1 as far south as Brazil, ns these writers jiretend. 
Unable to say ; but, from the great extent of 
in which I have myself killed and examined 
birds, I am satislied that the present species, now 
^.‘•>bed, is the only one inhabiting the United States. 
Oh.***®* the foregoing w.is written, 1 have had an 
t^Yl^tunity, by the death of a tame Carolina paroquet, 
V^^Uartain the fact of the poisonous (effects of their 
htf , and intestines on cats. Ilaving shut up a cat and 
I,, kittens, (the latter only a few days old,) in a 
"'ith the head, neck, and whole intestines of the 
^Uet, I found, on the next morning, the whole 
"ti j ®*cept a small part of the bill. The cat exhibited 
^*Cptom of sickness ; and, at this moment, three 
niter the experiment has been made, she and her 
are in their usnal health. Still, however, the 
blo c, •night have been different, had the daily food of 
