Capitolo 70
The grey and common parrot, the most known in confinement of all of his/her kind,
and unrivalled like an orator for its graces of discourse, is a native of
Africa of the west; so that he divides with other Africans Of the west that improve
command of language of which you/he/she has been a characteristic always marked
the blacks race. He feeds in a general way on palm-crazy, bananas,
mangoes and guavas, but he is from any means I oppose, if the opportunity
offers, to the Indian corn of the industrious native. His/her wife
it accompanies him in his/her solitary turns, for them they are not gregarious.
In his/her native places of meeting, indeed Polly is a non sociable bird. It is only
in confinement out which its more excellent qualities come, and that she develops
in a discourse-creator of separate attainments.
A very particular and unusual bud of the group of parrot is the
brush-touched lory with the language, a lot of kind of what common is in Australia,
India and the Islands of Molucca. These beautiful and interesting creatures
it is in point of parrots of fact what you/they have practically done them
in long duration humming-birds in the poetic habit of
visit flowers for food. As the Mr. Oscar Wilde in his/her aesthetical days,
them breakfast by a lily. Fluttering around from tree to tree with great
rapidity, they thrusts their long extensible languages, pencilled with
hair that honey-gathers, in the pipes of many great tropical flowers.
The lorieses, live indeed completely on the nectar, and they is so common in
their region you/they have done their really that all the greatest flowers there
you/he/she has been developed with a special sight to their tastes and the habits, as
well as to the structure of their detail brush-as honey-collector.
In more parrots the mouth is dry and the language horny; but in the
lories is damp and very more as the same organ in the
humming-birds and sun-birds. The generality of very great and
brightly coloured blooms in the Malayan region you/he/she must have put down for
the more part to the selective action of this aesthetical and