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THE POMPADOUR PARROT. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill hooked. Upper mandible moveable. 

 Nostrils round, placed in liie bafe of die bill. 

 Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. 



Legs fhort. Toes formed for climbing; viz. two toes forward and two 

 backward. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Long-tailed dark-crimfon Parrot, with the back and wings velvet-green, 

 tips of the wings and exterior tail-feathers deep -blue. 



Tabuan PaiTOt 



Lath. Syncpf. p. 214- 



AMONGST the beautiful fpecies of Parrots fo plentifully difperfed over 

 the ifland of new Holland, the prefent may be confidered as one of 

 the moft elegant. The beak and legs are blackifhj the head, neck, breaft 

 and belly of the richeft and deepeft atropurpurean, or dark crimfon : the 

 back, fhoulders, and tail, deep grafs-green, with a rich filky or velvet- 

 like furface : the two middle feathers of the tail are (lightly clouded with a 

 varying caft of blue, and the two or three exterior ones incline ftrongly to 

 this colourk The long feathers of the wings are alfo blue. The tail is of 



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