34. THE NATURAL HISTORY 
fear of the Monkies. When they are kept tame, 
they are fubject to fits; they fometimes fall down 
fuddenly, and lie for a little while as though they. 
were dead. , 
_ Parrots are in fuch numbers at Bengal, (which 
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 kind of Parrot called the Paroquet. 
Some Paroquets have fhort tails, like the 
Cockatoo and Grey Parrot; and others have 
long tails, which end ina point. : 
Paroquets generally fly in flocks; they are green, 
like the leaves of the trees, and fowlers find it 
very difficult to 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 beau- 
tiful, and their tails very long, They frequent 
the moift lands which are planted with palm. © 
trees. They generally fly,in pairs, and perch on 
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