File:Stories about birds of land and water (1874) (14750556032).jpg

Identifier: storiesaboutbird00kirb (find matches)
Title: Stories about birds of land and water
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893 Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873
Subjects: Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: Hartford (Conn.) : American Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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^-i THE WAVED PARROT. among the branches, hooking, and swinging, and putting themselves into allkinds- of positions. They are getting their breakfast of fruit and nuts and THE PARROT. 159 berries, and a pretty sight it must be to see them, their gay colours ghstcning among the green leaves.
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THE COLLARED PARROT. They are very fond of taking a bath in some clear stream, and theygenerally go at one particular hour, and are as punctual as clock-work. The i6o STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. bathing scene is like a frolic, for they splash about and roll over each other,and chatter and scream, and seem to be thoroughly enjoying themselves.When they have bathed enough, they fly up to the branches of the trees,and dress their feathers, and make themselves very clean and tidy; andin the middle of the day, when the heat is the greatest, they take a nap,and all is silent. Their roosting-place is in some hollow tree, often in the hole made by thewoodpecker. The parrots get into the hole until it will contain no more, and the restsleep close by, hooked on to the tree by their bill and claws. The mother parrot does not take the trouble to make a nest. She laysher eggs in a hole, and all the mother parrots lay them in the same place. Because the parrot can be taught to speak, and has such droll wa

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