New Britain herald., 1930-02-14
FRIENDLY PARROT
 TURNS INTO FOE
Immigrant Birds Bring Disease 10000 Now in U, s.

WaA]iuGlon, D. C., Feb, l4-Pol.y wants d friend.
 The sociable parrot cherished companion of man, has suddenly ba- come suspect as q dangerous carrier O. disease,
 Although hunters arc believed to have completely cXtertninatcd th" only member Of the parrot famiiy native 10 tho United States. the par. rot population of the country is very largo." says Il bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic Society
 "How large no one know. But it is estimated that there are 30.0eQ parrots in the city of New York alone,
 Tho Immigrant Psittacp>iS More than a half million IjTr birds arc imported into the United States annually Most of these tcath- rlcd immigrants arc canarles, Ef course, para kects, macaNs, rockA- toos love birds, and lorics, probably second in numbers.
 dlTOIS are tltitilN fiDPitdi tll hH. Some species however. range deeply into temperate regions. The Caro- lima parrot, which. like the passcl~ ger pigeon, has been wiped out, 1 used to be reported as far north as 1 Albany. New York and WisconslA. Regions of New Zealand penetrated by some hardy parrots lie as far south of the Equator as Labrador IS north of it.
 Charges of transmitting con- municable disease have been lad l against the Amazon, a green parrot, l and one of the best takers among approximately 500 species of par rots. The Amazon and the AfricaH gray parrot, a large gray-fcathor31 bird with q red tail, are the most noted conyersationalsts of then voluble order.
 The "Barkers of BirdOm'
 "A few parrots are quiet, retiring birds dressed in modest Quaker col ors As a class, however, they ar the ballyhoo bankers of birdom, the noisy. clever. sidcshoW performefs or the tropical forest, blatant, bizarr. in dress, comedians in motley> trooping on to the silent, trasIc jungle stage.
 Arrival Of q flock of scrccchina cockatoos will turn q Malayan for est glade into a bedlam besiGl which radio row under the Maj, kat1an elevated is a peaceful re. treat,
 Scientists believe that it was the ring parrot of India which AlcXaI. der the Great introduced to tn, western world. Parrots in cages '.l tortoise shell and ivory with silva wires were among Ncro's cXtravd eances and they were CcrtainM among the first importations iron the new world after it's discovery pt Columbus.
 Pueblo BOnito Indians Had MaCavs
 Neil NJ. Judd, leader of the N&. tional Geographic Society eXpcditio! tn Pueblo Bonto. found in tht GOO year old New Mexico ruin pcrchcs and 50 skeletons of grea macaWs, which were totcms of cer tain Indian clans
 Parrots vary in size from slnal birds, scarcely larger than sparrow, to huge macaWs that measure thr1' feet from bill to tip of tail. Al members of the psittaci family ar distinguished by the short, stout bl,l ''>" ''"nor half Of which extends be yond and turns down over the lowe ...-... ou1 by the fact that two toe O each foot are directed forWar and two back ward, Although the
 flock together parrots arc notab
 nOnogdm mouS,
 "Modernist' Color Schemes
 Birds in their little nests do n generally agree, nursery precepts
 the contrary, vet one specie Of pa rcts is q model marital bliss. Newly
 wedS could be no more affectiona