ILLINOIS PARROT. a43 



Perroqtietj In a ftate of confinement, which laid four eggs every 

 fpring, during five or fix years : one of the eggs was addle j the 

 others produftive *.. 



Tui-apeta-jube, Margrave, 206, N" 2. — fSTil. Orn, 116. — Rait. Sj/n, av. 34.. — ■ ijj. Ils-Jnois^ 



De Buffm, vi. 269. — Latham, i. 228. 

 Pfittacus Pertinax, Lin. Syft. 142. 

 La Perruch&Illinoife, Brijfon, vf. 353. 

 ¥ellow-faced Parrotj Ed<w. 234. 



With a cinereous bill : orange-colored irides : forehead, cheelcs^ 

 and fometimes the hind part of the head, of a rich orange : 

 crown, upper part of the body, tail, and coverts of the wings, of a 

 fine green : primaries green, edged externally with blue : breaft and 

 belly of a yellowifh green : vent yellow : tail very long and cunei- 

 form; Of the fame fize with the former. Perhaps differs only in fex ? 



Inhabits the interior parts of North America, in the country of the 

 Illinois^ fouth of lake Michigam : it is alfo met with in the Brazils. 

 is a lively bird ; but its voice not very articulate. Father Charlevoix 

 inet with fome on the banks of the Tbeatiki, a river that rifes a little 

 fouth of lake Michigam, and runs into the Mijfifip, He fays, that 

 thofe he faw were only ftragglers, which migrated before winter ; 

 but that the main body palTed the whole year on the borders of the 

 Miffyip f. 



The Count De Buffon confines the whole genus of Parrots to ex- Latitudes of 

 aftly twenty-five degrees on each fide of the Equator J. It always 

 gives me pain to differ in opinion with fo illuftrlous a chara£ler ; but 

 [ muft produce my authorities of their being common at far greater 

 dlflances. On the continent of America, two fpecies have been ob- 

 ferved by the S-paniards about T^rinity Harbour, in the South Seas, in 



* Oif. vi. 115. \ Jutirnfil Hijiorijui, vi, 124. J Oi/. vi. 82. 



I i 2 north 



Pl.A«JI. 



Parrots. 



