BLUNT-TAILED GREEN PARROTS 



1885 



color of the plumage green. Usually the tail is about half the length of the 

 wing, and may be either squared or rounded at the end, and the bill is of moderate 

 strength, sometimes rather longer than deep. The New- World forms are all of 

 them tropical. 



Amazon 

 Parrots 



AH-GREEN PARRAQUET. 



(One-half natural size.) 



The Amazon parrots, of which there are over forty species, are 

 mostly comparatively-large birds, sometimes exceeding seventeen 

 inches in length, and range from Mexico to Argentina, although espe- 

 cially characteristic of the great river valley from which they take their name. 

 They are characterized by the tail being of moderate length and rounded, with the 

 under coverts always green, and also by the absence of a tufted oil gland, as well as 

 by the completeness of the bony ring round the eye. One of ihe best-known species 

 is the festive amazon (Chrysotis f estiva], from the Amazon valley, which is a green 

 bird with a red frontlet, a line of blue above and behind the eye, the back and rump 



