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band and eye-streak are deep red, with a purplish 

 tinge. Ahove and behind the eyes, the feathers are 

 pale azure-blue. The lower back and rump are 

 deep vermilion-red, the greater quills and seconda- 

 ries have their outer webs of a deep blue, the interior 

 webs being: greenish-black. The remainder of the 

 plumage of the upper and under parts of the body 

 is green. The tail is short, being about four inches 

 in length, nearly even at the end, the outmost fea- 

 ther on each side, with its exterior web, margined 

 with blue ; the rest are green, with a small spot of 

 pale red near their bases, except the two interme- 

 diate feathers, which are wholly green. The legs 

 are stout, and of a bluish-grey or leaden colour. 



AMAZONS' PARROT. 



Psittacus Amazonius AUCTORUM. 



Psittacus Amazonius, Briss. Av. 4. p. 256 Wagler, Mon. 



Psitt. in Abhand. c, p. 496. and 588 Spix. Av. Bras. 



p. 45 Le Peroquet Amazone, Buff. PL Enl. 547 



Aourou Parrot, Shawls Zool. 8. p. 508. pi. 76. 



THE true Amazons' Parrot has so frequently been 

 confounded and mixed up with other nearly allied 

 species, that a description of it may not be unac- 

 ceptable to our readers, especially as it is a kind 

 frequently brought to Europe, on account of its col- 

 loquial powers, and known, like others of its con- 



