| gs «©6Cs THE NATURAL HISTORY 
tion, and fondnefs, when he had climbed upon her 
fhoulder. 
The maid had once a {welled finger, which 
cave her great pain, All the time fhe was ill, 
the Parrot would not leave her chamber, but 
feemed very unhappy; efpecially when her pain 
was fo-violent as to make her complain. 
Scaliger fpeaks of a Parrot who had learnt to 
imitate the Savoyards’ dance, and to repeat their 
fong. The Savoyards live near the Alps. 
The Parrot eats almoft any thing, when he is 
kept tame ; but meat, which he is fond of, is 
very hurtful to him; it brings on a diforder, 
which makes him gnaw and pull out his feathers, 
_ There is a great variety of Parrots in Brazil, 
in South America; and the people there fpend much 
of their time in teaching them to talk. They 
have the art of improving the colours of Parrots: 
when they are young, it is faid that they pull out 
fome of the feathers, and drop upon the part the 
blood of a beautiful Frog, which is found in Bra- 
zil, This Frog is of a fine blue colour, with 
lines of gold; and the new feathers of the Parrot, 
which would have been green, by thefe means, 
__ become yellow or red. 
But it-is very cruel, even in Savages, to 
do fo. 
They 
