Capitolo 71
a little brush-touched parrots with the language and colour-loving.
Australia and the New Zelanda, as each knows, it is the countries where
all passes contrary. And it is here that the group of parrot has
developed some of his/her stranger and more abnormal buds. One is able
you imagine in advance that any two birds could be more otherwise from in each
I respect that the pompous cockatoos, noisy, gregarious and the dark,
nighttime owls, solitary. He/she anchors the owl-parrot in New Zelanda it is, to put him/it
clearly, a lory that has supposed the whole external aspect and the habits
of an owl. A lurker of twilight or under the shades at night,
digging for his/her nest in holes in the earth, it has brown dark color
plumage as the owls, with a low tone of green to book his/her parrot
origin: while its face is on completely sort of two great disks,
surrounding the eyes that succeed in to give him a more marked and
clear owl-as I wait.
Now, because if a parrot had to disguise himself/herself/themselves and you/he/she should conceal his
ancestry? The reason is simple. It found a place for him ready it did in
nature. New Zealand is a remote and scatteredly-provisioned island, peopled from
objects lost casual and mere and it diverts some life from adjacent but he/she anchors a lot
continent distant. They are not there there hostile dangerous. Here, then,
it was a clear opportunity for a nighttime raider. The owl-parrot with true
instinct of business saw so the opening placed before clearly it, and takings
to a nighttime and digging the life with the natural consequence that it,
acquired in duration the dark plumage, eyes crepuscular and wide
disk-how reflectors of other night-fliers that wander looking for prey. Otherwise from owls,
however, the owl-parrot, true to the vegetarian instincts of the whole one
lories race, alive almost entirely on twigs of musks and other
creeping plants. It is so essentially a ground bird; and as it feeds
at night in a country that doesn't possess any native beasts of prey, it has
almost lost the power of flight, and you only use his/her wings as a kind of