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PARROTS.

Their Peculiar Manner of Climbing--Points of Resemblance with Monkeys--Their Social habits--Their Connubial Felicity-- Inseparables--Talent for Mimicry--Wonderful Powers of Speech and Memory--Their Wide Range within the Temperate Zones--Colour of Parrots Artificially Changed by the South American Indians-- The Cockatoos--Cockatoo killing in Australia--The Macaw--The Parakeets 392

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