29 JUNE 1907, Page 31

DO PARROTS UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY TALK ABOUT?

[To TDT EDITOR OF TEE SPECTATOR:9

Sra.,—My daughter's experience this last week would suggest that parrots do understand what is said to them. When feeding our bird he attacked her, and she, a little alarmed and a good deal annoyed, said : "You nasty horrid old thing, when I feed you every day !" 'Polly' retired to the corner of the cage and said several times: " Temper ! temper ! "—I am,