. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE RINGED PARRAKEET. 379 The individual from which the illustration is taken, is a very great favorite in the house where he belongs, being looked upon more in the light of a human being than a bird. Her birthday is scrupulously kept, and on that auspicious morning she is always presented with a sponge cake, which she eats daintly whUe sitting on the mantel-piece, chuckling to herself at intervals. She is a most affectionate little creature, and cannot bear that any of her especial frie
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE RINGED PARRAKEET. 379 The individual from which the illustration is taken, is a very great favorite in the house where he belongs, being looked upon more in the light of a human being than a bird. Her birthday is scrupulously kept, and on that auspicious morning she is always presented with a sponge cake, which she eats daintly whUe sitting on the mantel-piece, chuckling to herself at intervals. She is a most affectionate little creature, and cannot bear that any of her especial friends should leave the room without bidding farewell; and I once saw her set up such a screech because her mistress happened to go away without speaking to her, that she had to be taken out of her cage and comforted before she would settle quietly. Her owner has kindly pre- 4\^^^ sented to me the following account of the bird :— " You ask me to tell you something about my little Polly. Perhaps the simplest plan will be to give a sketch of her history, premising that although I believe my little pet to be a male, still, as I love her so tenderly, I always use the feminine pronoun in speaking of and to her. •'Polly's bii'th-place was Trincomalee, and she was brought over to America by one of my wife's sons, an officer in the navy, being ac- companied hither by a vast retinue of Parrakeets, almost all of which fell victims to the rough, cold weather which they had to encounter, to- gether with the change of climate. The poor birds liter- ally laid them down and died, the deck being streAVTi with their elegant forms. Polly, I am thankful to say, was blessed with an excellent con- stitution, and her nurse, a kind-hearted, weather-beaten sailor, loved her, and she lay in his bosom and was so kept warm and comfortable through the cold. "On Polly's arrival at Portsmouth, her nurse, being obliged to attend to other matters, left her to her own resources in an old cage in whi
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