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THE GROUND 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 to^s forward, and two 

 backward. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Long-tailed green Parrot, fpotted with black and yellow ; the frontlet red -, 

 the tail yellow, with numerous black bars. 



N. 5.. The two middle tail feathers are green barred with yellow. 



AMONGST the new fpecies of birds lately received from New Hoi'. 

 land is a fmall Parrot, of an appearance fo fingularly beautiful as to 

 furpafe inofi: of the gay tribe to which it belongs. Its fize is that of a 

 fmall Turtle, and it belongs to the divifion in this genus containing the 

 plittaci macrouri or long-tailed parrots. 



The general colour of the bird is a full grafs-green, each feather on 

 the back and fhoulders being marked in the middle with a dalli or fpot of 



G g a black 



