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PARROT. 
still beating regular time, would finish the tune 
with wonderful accuracy. The death of this ex- 
traordinary bird was thus announced in the General 
Evening Post, for the ninth of October, 1802 : “A 
few days ago died, in Half-moon street, Piccadilly, 
the celebrated parrot of colonel O’ Kelly. This 
singular bird sang a number of songs in perfect 
time and tune. She could express her wants arti- 
culately, and give her orders in a manner nearly 
approaching to rationality. Her age was not known; 
it was, however, more than thirty years, for pre- 
viously to that period Mr. O’Kelly bought her at 
Bristol for a hundred guineas. The colonel was 
repeatedly oflfered five hundred guineas a-year for 
the bird, by persons who wished to make a pub- 
lic exhibition of her ; but this, out of tenderness 
to the favourite, he constantly refused. The bird 
was dissected by Dr. Kennedy and Mr. Brooke ; 
and the muscles of the larynx, which regulate the 
voice, were found, from the effect of practice, to 
be uncommonly strong.” 
