THE CAROLINA PARROT. 45 
The Parrot, of which we have been reading, 
may be supposed to have been the one of which 
so interesting an account is given by Wilson in 
his American Ornithology. It was taken at the 
Big-bone lick, where he witnessed the extreme 
affection and strong sympathy which the parrots 
have for each other, and of which we have ima- 
gined our bird to speak. Its merriment, too, 
respecting the nests of the tribe, may pass as 
natural, considering the little light Wilson could 
obtain on the subject, and the vivacious mockery 
of the bird’s disposition, even if it had had the 
power of giving him the requisite information. 
The parrot has been made to speak of her 
travels with “ the Captain” through the morasses 
and cedar-swamps, and of the trouble she gave 
him, “‘ when many a time,” says he (Wilson) 
‘“‘T was tempted to abandon it.” <“ And in this 
manner,” he goes on to say, “I carried it up- 
wards of a thousand miles in my pocket, where 
it was exposed all day to the jolting of the 
horse, but regularly liberated at meal-times and 
in the evening, at which it always expressed great 
satisfaction.”” The Chickasaw and the Chactaw 
