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The natives catch the young Parrots Ls cutting 
‘down the treesin which the nefts are built; and they _ 
fhoot the old ones with blunt arrows, or pieces * 
of ftick, covered with cotton, which beats down’ 
the Parrot, but does not always kill 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 — the Parrots, and they ae 
from ‘the trees*** */ : 
_ Some of the fmaller avid are very nice food. 
Th South” America, on the banks of the river of 
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 {pice- -trees, their flefh- 
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 o 3 
| nefts at the end of the flender twigs of a tree, for 
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