. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. Vmt with caution. -M uv inhabited by a species of Amazon. Th.' habits of all these Parrots seem to he very similar, anil a good account of tlie Active Amazon of Jamaica (C/ii-i/sotin a<jilis) is given by Mr. Gosso* :â" All the Parrots ai-e gregarious, cunning, watchful, noisy, mischievous ; and thus are like the Monkeys. Tliis and the Yellow-billed Parrot [Mr. Gosse's name for C. wj'dis is the Black-billed Parrot] are so much iilike in manners and general appearance, that a description of one applies nearly to the other. Flocks var


. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. Vmt with caution. -M uv inhabited by a species of Amazon. Th.' habits of all these Parrots seem to he very similar, anil a good account of tlie Active Amazon of Jamaica (C/ii-i/sotin a<jilis) is given by Mr. Gosso* :â" All the Parrots ai-e gregarious, cunning, watchful, noisy, mischievous ; and thus are like the Monkeys. Tliis and the Yellow-billed Parrot [Mr. Gosse's name for C. wj'dis is the Black-billed Parrot] are so much iilike in manners and general appearance, that a description of one applies nearly to the other. Flocks varying from half a dozen to twenty or thirty tly hither and thither over the forest, screeching as they go, and idl alight together on some tree covered with berries. Here th. <Ju a slight alarm one screams, and the whole tlock is on the wing, vociferous if not musical, and brilliant if not beau- tiful, paiticularly when the sun shines on their green backs and crim- soned wings. They gene- rally prefer lofty trees. except when, in June, the ripe yellow plantain tempts them to descend, or when tlie blackberry shines upon the pimento. Of the latter the flocks devour an immense (juantity, and the former they destroy by cutting it to pieces with theiir powerful beaks, to get at the small seeds. One <Uvy in January, when the pimento on the brow â of Bluefields Mountain was about ready for picking, being full-sized, but yet green and hard, I observed large flocks of Black-bills, and a few Pan-akeets, flying to and fro with voluble chatter, now alighting to feed on the hot, aromatic berry, amazon parrot. now flying ofi", and wheeling round to the same neighbourhood again. They were not at all .shy, but, with unusual care- lessness of one's proximity, scarcely moved at the report of the gun which brought their companions to the gi-ound. Of two which I shot on this occasion, I found the craws stuffed with the cotyledons of the seed alone, the pungeutly aromatic part of


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