The royal natural history (1893) (14598285797)

Identifier: royalnaturalhist47lyde (find matches)
Title: The royal natural history
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Frostick, W. B., former owner. DSI Brooks, W. T., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Natural history
Publisher: London and New York : Frederick Warne & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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Darwin relating that as many as two thousand five hundred ofthese birds were killed near Colonia in the course of a year. In some districts thenests are constructed in the trees growing in swamps, and attain a huge size; eachnest generally having several entrances, and being frequented by two or threepairs of birds. On this account the name of swamp-parrot is frequently appliedto the species. From observations made on captive specimens, it appears thatalthougli the cock aids in building the nest, the work of incubation is performedby the hen alone ; the usual number of eggs being two. FA RRO TLB 7\S. 119 Nearly allied to this species are several South American parrots constitutingthe genus Bolhorliynchus, distinguished from the one under consideration by thenostrils being exposed and opening in a much swollen cere, from which the nameof the genus is derived. These parrots range from Mexico to Northern Chiliand the Argentine, a well-known species being the Aymara parraquet (B. aymara).
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GREY BKt\t>rhD I \hK\i^LLl (- lldt. Size). The smallest representatives of this subfamily arc the prettv Parrotlets. . , . . . . / little green and blue birds, which may be termed, from their Latin name, parrotlets, and occupy a position in this section analogous to that held by the love-birds in the parraquet group. The largest of these parrotlets is only 5i inches in length, while none of the others exceed 5 inches. They differ from all the other members of the subfamilj- in the relative shortness of their tails, and also in that the two sexes are unlike, while their skeletons are distinguished by the absence of the furcula. The) range from Mexico to Bolivia and Brazil, and are diviled into three groups, according to the colour of the rump in the male. In PARROTS. the first group, as represented by the blue-winged parrotlet (Psittacula passerina)the rump is ultramarine blue; in the second (P. speugeli) it is turquoise; and in the third (P.guiuuen-sis) green. We may remark here th