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THE SOUTHERN BROWN PARROT. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill hooked. Upper mandible moveable. 

 Nostrils round, placed in the bale of the bill. 

 Tongue flcfliy, broad, blunt at tlte end. 



L(EGs fliort. Toes formed for climbing, viz. two forward, and two 

 backward. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Short-tailed brown Parrot, with greyifli head, the fore part of the neck 

 and lower part of the abdomen dull red. 



Southern brown Parrot. 



Lath. Syn, i. p. 264, 



f 1"^ H E Parrot figured on the prefent plate, tho' lefs diftinguiflied either 

 "*• by beauty of colour or elegance of fliape than moft others of the genus, 

 is ^ et highly important from its rarity ; being one of the fpecies which 

 the ample regions of New Holland have lately afforded. 



Its prevailing colour is a darkifh brown j the fore part of the neck and 

 the lower part of the abdomen are of a deep ferruginous rcdj and in fome 



N 2 fpecimens 



