Parakeets and Their Sleeping Place

Vayon tells us that in southeastern Africa the native parrots fly in little flocks in search of food, bathe about noon, and hide themselves among the foliage during the overpowering heat of the sun. Towards evening they disperse themselves, after which they again bathe, and then fly back to the same roosting place from which they had departed in the morning. These roosting places are very various, sometimes the thickly-leaved top of a tree, sometimes a rock full of holes, often a hollow tree trunk. Their sleeping place says Audubon, speaking of the American parakeets, is a hollow tree or the hole chiseled out in some