Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1908 — Mexico's Famous Parrots. [ARTICLE]

Mexico's Famous Parrots.

In the State of Tamaulipas, in Mexico, parrots of the much prized “double yellow head” variety, famous as conversationists, are found in countless flocks. Indeed the woods are literally full of them and are vocal with their harsli cry from sunrise to sunset. They seem to have but one note. It is only in confinement that they are imitative. In this country they are worth $lO apiece Parrots build their nests in holes and hollows of trees, and in parts of Mexico they are so numeroua that every available cavity is occupied by them in the nesting season. Nevertheless the work of procuring their young is extremely arduous, even for the expert natives. Trees In the tropics nre commonly festooned with many climbing vines of thicknesses varying from a thread to the size of a ship’* cable, and all this network of vegetation is usually infested by myriads of desjterately fierce antr of large'size, which both bite and sting. Many an unfortunate peon, it is suld, lias lost bis life whllo engaged in this pursuit, because, tortured beyond endurance by tiie ferocious Insects, he was unable to retain bis grip.—Argonaut.