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32 THE NATURAL HISTORY. 
tion, and fondnefs, when he had climbed sais her 4 
fhoulder. 
The maid had once a {welled angst which 
gave her great pain, AN the time fhe was ‘ll, 
the Parrot would not leave her chamber, but 
_ feemed very unhappy ; efpecially when her pain 
was fo violent as to make her complain. 
‘Scaliger foeaks of a Parrot who had learnt to 
imitate the Savoyards’ dance, and to repeat their 
pee 
fong. The Savoyards live near the Alps. 
The Parrot eats almoft any thing, when he‘ 1S 
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; andthe people there fpend much _ 
of their time in teaching them to talk. ‘They 
have the art of j 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- 
oat. 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, 
do fo. 
become yellow or red, : 
But it is very cruel, even in Savages, to 
J oo “They 
