Crossword-Solution: PSITTACUS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Kent, the assistant-surgeon, was so kind as to make for me some measurements with the barometer: he found many marine remains along the shores of the whole bay, at a height of about twenty feet; and from the hill of Sentinella behind Talcahuano, at the height of 160 feet, he collected numerous shells, packed together close beneath the surface in black earth, consisting of two species of Mytilus, two of Crepidula, one of Concholepas, of Fissurella, Venus, Mactra, Turbo, Monoceros, and the Balanus psittacus.

This was the bird which Bontius considered "went one better" than Ovid's famous parrot:-- "Psittacus, Eois quamvis tibi missus ab oris Jussa loquar; vincit me sturnus garrulus Indis." The mynahs have also the starling's habit of building in houses, and especially in temples.

Its components are _kin_, the sun, day; _ich_, the eye, the face; _kak_, fire; _moo_, the macaw, _Psittacus Macao_, deemed sacred throughout Mexico and Central America, on account of its beautiful plumage.

The little blue _Psittacus Taitianus_ frequents the top of the cocoa-palm; the _Ardea sacra_ walks along the coral reefs; but it is seldom that a tropical bird is seen on the wing.

The inhabitants of the Navigator Isles brought us the little _Psittacus australis_, _Columba australis_, and another very prettily marked dove, having green plumage, ornamented with a dark violet line across the breast, and the feet and head of a reddish purple.