. Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting . Fig. 166.—Swinderns Love-birds. on the ground among the herbage. This pretty and highly interestingbird is frequently called by the colonists Pheasant—to its length oftail and highly game flavour this misnomer is doubtless attributable. Love-birds, of which Psittaculu Swinderniana (Fig. 166) is therarest, are the smallest of this group ; their plumage varies in shadesaccording to the climates. They are met with in America, SouthernAfrica, and in the islands o
. Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting . Fig. 166.—Swinderns Love-birds. on the ground among the herbage. This pretty and highly interestingbird is frequently called by the colonists Pheasant—to its length oftail and highly game flavour this misnomer is doubtless attributable. Love-birds, of which Psittaculu Swinderniana (Fig. 166) is therarest, are the smallest of this group ; their plumage varies in shadesaccording to the climates. They are met with in America, SouthernAfrica, and in the islands of Oceania. Parrots, properly speaking, are distinguished from other groups THE GREY PARROT. 439 of the same family by their short square tails. They have featheredcheeks like Parrakeets, 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 specie?, founded upon the size and. Fig. 167.—Grey Parrots the predominathig colour of the plumage. The first of these is theGrey Parrot or Jaco {Fsittacus erythaciis. Fig. 167), indigenous tothe west coast of Africa, to which the chief part of the anecdotesrecounted in the preceding pages relate. Next come two species,the plumage of which is green : the most remarkable of these is theAmazonian Parrot {Chrysotis Amazonicus, Fig. 168), and the FestiveGreen Parrot {Chrysotisfestivus). 440 REPTILES AND BIRDS. Cockatoos have tails of medium length, cheeks feathered, andhead surmoimted by a white, yellow, or pink tuft, which they canraise and lower at will. They are the largest among the race ofParrots of the old continent. They inhabit the Indies and the islesof Oceania, and are pretty, graceful, docile, and caressing, but areindifferent talkers. One very remarkable species of this group isthe Microglossion aterrwiinn, called by Levaillant the Macaw withthe trumpet, from the formation of its tongue,
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