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(from its cry) a beautiful bird allied to the plovers, I judge, is very common. [[margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] At Dourados parrots by hundreds flew over at dawn going from cerrado to the matta, [[/margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] and in the evening they fly back, roosting in the low scattered trees of the cerrado.  As we rode back from the river we disturbed numbers of them as we rode through the cerrado. They are [[underlined]] nearly  always [[/underlined]] in twos, the twos mostly in groups. They