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Rouble-Fronted 
or Me H'aillant’s J|mazon. 
Psittacus Le Vaillanti, Russ. 
Chrysotis Le Vaillanti , Gi;. ; Psittacus ochrocephalus , Lchst. 
German: Der doppelte Gelblcopf, Russ. 
rpHIS remarkably fine bird rivals the world-renowned Grey Parrot 
-L as a mimic, and volumes might be filled with anecdotes, more 
or less authentic, of its performances in this respect, but cui bono? 
It is found in the northern portions of South America, including 
Guiana, Surinam, and Venezuela. 
A glance at the illustration will give the reader a more perfect 
idea of the bird, than ten pages of letter-press could do. It is one 
of the largest of the Chrysotis sub-family of the Psittacidce , consider- 
ably exceeding in size the Grey Parrot, and approaching that of the 
Cockatoo, but its short tail, barely four inches in length, gives it 
the appearance of being a smaller bird than it really is. 
The dense forests of its native land abound in nuts and fruits of 
many and various kinds upon which the Amazon Parrots subsist for 
the most part, although not averse to maize, for the sake of which 
they often make incursions on the cultivated grounds, and pay for 
their thievish propensities with their liberty, for the cultivators catch 
them with limed twigs, and forthwith sell them into hopeless slavery. 
Such Parrots, however, rarely become absolutely tame, and never make 
good talkers; to educate, thoroughly, one of these creatures it must be 
brought up from the nest by hand, and by the time it can eat alone 
it will not only be perfectly familiar with its foster-parent; but have 
piobably learned to repeat some words, if not a sentence or two. 
Like most of the productions of Tropical South America, the Double - 
fronted Amazon is perfectly hardy, and would certainly become accli- 
