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BEE AND BLUE MACAW. 
into the double mistake of saying that "its eggs are spotted as in the 
Partridge”, for the eggs of the latter bird, as is very well known, are 
of a uniform olive colour, without a spot of any kind, and those of 
the Macaw are pure white, which we believe, without any exception, 
is the colour of the eggs of every species of the family, whether found 
in the old world or the new. 
