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THE SPLENDID PARROT. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill hooked. Upper mandible moveable. 

 Nostrils round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 

 Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. 



Legs fhort. Toes formed for climbing j viz. two toes forward, 'and two 

 backward. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Long-tailed fanguine-red Parrot, with the back fpotted with black, the 



wings and tail blue. 

 Pennantian Parrot. Lath. SympJ. Stippl. p. 6i. 



Splendid Parrot. Naturalijl's Mifcellany, pi. 53. 



NATURE has been fo profufe of her decorations in the Parrot tribe, 

 and the number o( ipecies into which Ihe has diflributed thefe birds 

 is fo great, that it is difficult to imitate with precifion the former in paint- 

 ing, and to diftinguifh with accuracy the latter by exact fpecific characflers. 

 This difficulty is ftill further increafed by the numerous variations to which 

 they are fubjeft, as well as by the difference which frequently takes place in 

 the oppofite fexes of the fame bird. The prefent fpecies ftems to pofTefs 

 charafters as to its plumage, which in the full grown bird can never fail of 

 difcriminating it eafily as a diftinft fpecies ; but in thofe individuals which 

 are either not arrived at their mature age, or elfe are female birds, a very 



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