. Reptiles and birds : a popular account of the various orders; with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting . ed with red or blue. They inhabit SouthAmerica, the islands of Oceania, the Indies, Africa, and Tabuan or Kings Parrot {Platycercvs scapulatus, Yig.),which inhabits Australia, belongs to this group. These birds forma curious exception in the order of Climbers by their terrestrial H H 466 SCANSOEES, OE CLIMBEES. habits. According to M. J. Verreaux, tliey never perch whenpursued, but take refuge on the ground among the herbage. Parrots, properly speak
. Reptiles and birds : a popular account of the various orders; with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting . ed with red or blue. They inhabit SouthAmerica, the islands of Oceania, the Indies, Africa, and Tabuan or Kings Parrot {Platycercvs scapulatus, Yig.),which inhabits Australia, belongs to this group. These birds forma curious exception in the order of Climbers by their terrestrial H H 466 SCANSOEES, OE CLIMBEES. habits. According to M. J. Verreaux, tliey never perch whenpursued, but take refuge on the ground among the herbage. Parrots, properly speaking, are distinguished from other groupsof the same family by their short square tails. They have featheredcheeks like Parakeets, and their size is intermediate between themand the Aras. They are much appreciated on account of theirmemory, and also for their habit of repeating what they are divided into several species, founded upon the sizeand the predominating colour of the plumage. The first ofthese is generally grey, and consists only of the Grey Par-rot, or Jaco, indigenous to the West Coast of Africa, to which. Fig. 163.—Ureeu Parrot [Futtaciis amazoniais, the chief part of the anecdotes recounted in the preceding pagesrelate. Next comes a species the plumage of which is green;the most remarkable of these is the Amazonian Parrot. Theprincipal colour of the Lories is red; they inhabit the Moluccasand New Guinea. Love-birds (Fig. 186) are the smallest of thisgroup; their plumage varies in shades according to the are met with in America, Southern Africa, and in the islandsof Oceania. Cockatoos have tails of medium length, cheeks feathered, andhead surmounted by a white, yellow, or pink tuft, which they can TOUCANS. 4G7 raise and lower at will. They are the largest among the race ofParrots of the Old Continent. They inhabit the Indies and theisles of Oceania, and are pretty, graceful, docile, and caressing,but are indifferent talkers. One
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