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CAROLINA PARROT. 
with great composure and satisfaction. In this short space 
she had learnt to know her name ; to answer, and come when 
called on ; to climb up my clothes, sit on my shoulder, and 
eat from my mouth. I took her with me to sea, determined 
to persevere in her education ; but, destined to another fate, 
poor Poll, having one morning, about daybreak, wrought her 
way through the cage, while I was asleep, instantly flew over- 
board, and perished in the Gulf of Mexico. 
The Carolina, or Illinois Parrot, (for it has been described 
under both these appellations,) is thirteen inches long, and 
twenty-one in extent ; forehead and cheeks, orange red ; 
beyond this, for an inch and a half, down and round the neck, 
a rich and pure yellow ; shoulder and bend of the wing, also 
edged with rich orange red. The general colour of the rest 
of the plumage is a bright yellowish silky green, with light 
blue reflections, lightest and most diluted with yellow below ; 
greater wing-coverts and roots of the primaries, yellow, 
slightly tinged with green; interior webs of the primaries, 
deep dusky purple, almost black, exterior ones, bluish green ; 
tail, long, cuneiform, consisting of twelve feathers, the exterior 
one only half the length, the others increasing to the middle 
ones, which are streaked along the middle with light blue ; 
shafts of all the larger feathers, and of most part of the green 
plumage, black ; knees and vent, orange yellow ; feet, a pale 
whitish flesh colour ; claws, black ; bill, white, or slightly 
tinged with pale cream ; iris of the eye, hazel ; round the eye 
is a small space without feathers, covered with a whitish skin ; 
nostrils placed in an elevated membrane at the base of the 
bill, and covered with feathers ; chin, wholly bare of feathers, 
but concealed by those descending on each side ; from each 
side of the palate hangs a lobe or skin of a blackish colour ; 
tongue, thick and fleshy ; inside of the upper mandible near 
the point, grooved exactly like a file, that it may hold with 
more security. 
The female differs very little in her colours and markings 
from the male. After examining numerous specimens, the 
