
9. THE NATURAL HISTORY 
fear of the Monkies. When they are kept tame, 
they are fubject to fits ; they fometimes fall dows 
{uddenly, and lie for a little while as though they 
were dead. 
Parrots are in fuch numbers at Bengal, (whick 
is in Afia,) and on the coaft of Africa, that the 
Indians and Negroes are obliged to watch their 
fields about the time that their maize, (or Indian 
corn) and their rice is ripening, to prevent the 
Parrots from deftroying their harveft. 
There is.a kindof Parrot called the Paroquet, 
- Some Paroquets have fhort tails, like the 
Cockatoo and Grey Parrot ; and others have 
long tails, which end in a point. 
Paroquets generally Ay in flocks; they are green, 
like the leaves of the trees, and fowlers find it 
very difficultto fee them. When.a Paroquet dif 
covers a tree which bears the berries that he 
likes, he makes a loud cry, to. inform the reft, 
who immediately follow; and then the fowler 
fhoots in among the flock and kills many of 
them. | | 
' The ‘Maccaws are the largeft of the Parrot 
kind: their colours, in general, are very — 
tiful, and their tails very long. ‘They frequen 
the moift lands which are planted with palm 
trees. They generally fly in pairs, and perch om 
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