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THE CAROLINA PARROT. 
the magpie, but the beak alone is nearly as big as the rest 
of the body; the head is large and strong, and the neck 
short, in order the more easily to support the bulk of such 
a beak. The head, neck, and wings are black ; the breast 
shines with a most lovely saffron colour, with a certain red- 
ness near the beginning ; the lower part of the body and 
the thighs are of a most beautiful vermilion ; the tail is 
black, but of a bright red at the end. 
One of these birds that was kept in a cage was very fond 
of fruit, which it he^ld for some time in its beak, touching 
it with great delight with the tip of its feathery tongue, and 
then tossing them into its throat by .a sudden upright jerk; 
it also fed on birds and other small animals. 
CAROLINA PARROT. ( Psittacus Carolinensis.') 
Of one hundred and sixty-eight kinds of Parrots (says 
Wilson) enumerated by writers as inhabiting the various 
regions of the globe, this is the only species found native 
within the territory of the United States. Our engraving 
shows that this bird has a far more elegant form than the 
imported parrots which we see in cage^. It is thirteen 
inches long and twenty-one in extent; its forehead and 
cheeks are orange red ; beyond this, for an inch and a half 
