. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. all is it to hearthem in the open country when the palepurple evening melts around their who choose may keep them manyyears in cages if fed on seeds, kinds, and roots, with plenty of sandor turf on the floor of the cage. The songsters and whistlers that wehave now mentioned will not begin to fill an aviary. But how can wedescribe in this limited spacethe numerous exotic birds thatought to be in it ? We cannoteven enumerate them, butmust pass to their largercomrades, the parrots andcockatoos. VIII
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. all is it to hearthem in the open country when the palepurple evening melts around their who choose may keep them manyyears in cages if fed on seeds, kinds, and roots, with plenty of sandor turf on the floor of the cage. The songsters and whistlers that wehave now mentioned will not begin to fill an aviary. But how can wedescribe in this limited spacethe numerous exotic birds thatought to be in it ? We cannoteven enumerate them, butmust pass to their largercomrades, the parrots andcockatoos. VIII. Parrots andCockatoosThe first recorded informa-tion that we have about par-rots is in a description of afestival given at Alexandria in Egypt two hun-dred and eighty-four years before Christ. Inthe reign of Alexander the Great they werebrought from Egypt to Greece. In Rome theywere articles of luxury, exchanged sometimesfor a slave. The cooked heads of parrots madea feast for Heliogabalus and his lions, who re-ceived their share, as they hkewise did of T iU .^. The Goldfinch
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