124 AMAZONS PARROT. 



genera, by the common appellation of Green Parrot. 

 In dimensions it is inferior to the Festive Parrot, its 

 length seldom exceeding twelve inches : the bill is 

 less powerful, but similar in form, its colour orange- 

 yellow, with a whitish tip. The cheeks, chin, and 

 angles at the base of the bill are yellow ; the fore- 

 head and eye-streak violet-purple, the bases of the 

 feathers being yellow : the occiput and hind-neck 

 are green, each feather edged with black. The rest 

 of the upper and under plumage is of a fine green. 

 The four lateral tail-feathers nearest the two middle 

 ones have their outer webs green, verging to yel- 

 low at the base and apex ; the inner webs yellow, 

 with a large central red spot, intersected by a trans- 

 verse green one : the fifth and sixth have the basal 

 half of the outer webs green, the remainder yellow ; 

 the inner webs with their bases and tips yellow, the 

 middle part being green : the next is distinguished 

 by a pale red spot ; and the remainder have their 

 bases green, which passes into yellow near the tips. 

 The margin of the carpus or lower ridge of the 

 wing is frequently of an orange-red. The first pri- 

 mary quill is black above : beneath, the inner web ex- 

 hibits at the base a rich tinge of verdigris-green, the 

 second, third, and fourth, have their exterior webs 

 green, with azure reflections ; the fifth, sixth, seventh, 

 and eighth, are green from the base to the middle, 

 the other part being deep azure blue, the inner webs 

 black ; the ninth to the twelfth greenish near the 

 base, passing forwards into brownish- red, which, 



