6q 



PARROT, 



32> 



EMERALD 

 PARROT. 



T Can no longer doubt the exiftence of this bird in the ftraits of 



Magalhaen, fince it is averred that flocks innumerable, of a 



fmaller kind of Parrot, were feen at Port Famifie, in latitude 53. 



44 



37- 

 ALEXANDRINE 



PARRAKEET. 



Alexandrine Parrakeet, Gen. Sjn. i. p. 234. N" 37. — Hajfdq: Foji.p. ig6. 

 Engl. ed. 



ZJASSEL^UIST obfervesj that this bird is brought by the 

 Ethiopians to Cairo for fale ; that it has a piercing flirill note^ 

 and can eafily be taught to articulate, though not very diftinftly. 

 He adds, that its chief food confifts of the feeds of iheJafflower-\-^ 



39- 

 Var. C. 



Malacca Barrakeet, Gen. SynA. p. 241. N"> 39. Var. C. 



THE napne of this bird among the Chinefe appears to be Sing- 

 PARRAKEET. M^i as it was fo called in a painting which came under mj 



infpeftion- 



76. 



Var.B. 



Scarlet Lory, Gen. Sjn. i. p. 270. N" 76. B. 



SCARLET npHIS bird is known in China by the name oi^Ty-pawn^ 

 LORY. A ' 



'03' Crimfon-winged Parrot, Gen. Syn.l. p. 299. N° 103. ; 



CRIMSON- ^ 



^^^ROT.^^^° <QOME fpecimens of this bvird raeafure thirteen inches in. 





length. 



» jiril. Zed. ii. p. 244. 



f Carthamus tinftorius, Lix- 



The 



