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PARROT. 
their being reared in France. M. de la Pigeoniere 
had a cock and hen in the town of Marmande, in 
Agenois, which hatched regularly each spring, for 
five or six years, and the young parrots lived and 
were brought up by the parents. Each hatch con- 
sisted of four eggs, three of which succeeded. The 
birds were shut in a room with nothing but a barrel 
open at top and filled with saw-dust ; sticks were 
fastened on the outside, that the male might scram- 
ble up and sit beside the hen. In entering the 
room it was necessary to wear boots, for the male 
would not suffer any one to approach his mate with- 
out flying furiously at him. 
Such instances as these, however, are very rare : 
therefore the well authenticated account of a parrot 
hatched at Rome, as related in the second volume 
of the Annals of Philosophy, from the Journal de 
Physique, is highly deserving of attention. The 
following is the account : 
In the year 1786, M. Passeri, of Rome, bought 
at Marseilles a female parrot, of the Amazonian 
tribe, and some months afterwards was presented at 
Avignon with a male of the same kind. He put 
these together, but without chaining them by the 
leg, or affixing any other badge of slavery, and 
suffered them to walk about the room at their ease. 
They often rested on the common perch; but some- 
times they retired during the night to a large iron 
cage, which was never shut, and in all other places 
where they afterwards were, they enjoyed the fullest 
liberty. From the first moment they met they 
