... packs off this very afternoon!" I need not add that Forncett caught eagerly at the suggestion, and that the parrot went back, as he came, by the carrier that day. Common report says that Polly , like the phoenix, sees out its century; but from fifty to eighty years is the term of its natural life. Le Valliant, the celebrated naturalist, describes an octogenarian gray parrot he saw at Amst...