O'R: ‘BORD ‘Ss. 33, 
The natives catch the young Parrots by cutting ' 
down the trees in which the nefts are built; and they 
Moot the old ones with blunt arrows, or pieces 
of ftick, covered with cotton, which beats down - 
the Parrot, but does not always kil] it. Some- 
times they make a fire under the trees where the: 
Parrots are, and throw upon it gum, ‘and green 
-pimento, (a kind of fpice,) which produce a 
-fmoke that ftupifies the Parrots, ‘and they — 
_ from the tree. 
-Some of the fmaller Parrots are very nice food. 
Tn South America, on the banks of the river of 
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Amazons (which is the largeft river in the world,) 
the Indians kill Parrots and Monkies with little: 
arrows; the points of thefe arrows have been 
_ dipped in the juice of a poifonous plant, and they 
_ blow them through a hollow piece of cane. 
Parrots live generally upon the fruit and feeds’ 
of trees. ‘They are very fond of the feeds of the 
 cotton-tree, but that foon intoxicates them. 
_ When they eat the feeds of fpice-trees, their flefh 
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taftes like cloves and cinnamon. 
They generally build their nefts in the holes ‘of 
hollow trees; efpecially thofe which have been 
made and forfaken by Woodpeckers. It is faid, 
that in Africa, feveral kinds of Parrots fix their 
nefts at the end of the flender twigs of a tree, for 
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