Piva ROR JOredls 
Genius V.0 P ARR OLE: 
ENGTH eighteen inches: bill large, blue, with a black point: 
general colour of the plumage dark green, under parts paler: 
forehead and middle of the crown crimfon: quills deep blue: tail 
Jong, dufky, greenith brown above, brown beneath: legs brown. 
Found at Port Fack/fon. \t appears moft to coincide with the Var. 
A. of the Pacific Parrot, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 253. 56. A. but feems to be 
of nearly twice the fize. 
IZE of the Grey Parrot; length thirteen inches: general colour 
dufky, with a flight glofs of green, and the margins of the fea- 
thers very pale: the head feathers are full, and the bird thereby en- 
abled to erect them as a creft at will; the whole of thefe are a deep 
fcarlet, except the chin, which is dufky: the under parts of the body 
are paler than the upper, and undulated with a mixture of reddifh 
and green, arifing from the margins ofithe feathers being of that co- 
lour, but not very confpicuous, except juft at the bottom of the belly, 
where the red predominates: the quills and tail are plain dufky, but 
appear fomewhat undulated with darker in a ftrong light: the bill is 
yellowifh: legs dufky: the tail is fhort; the wings reach three parts 
thereon. 
Another, fuppofed to be the female, was fifteen inches in length; on 
the upper parts much like the other, but the feathers more confpicu- 
oufly barred with a pale colour, more particularly the quills and tail, 
in which laft the bars are fix or feven in number: the head is tufted 
with feathers as in the other, but the feathers the fame colour as the 
back: the chin dufky green: breaft and belly barred acrofs beauti- 
Supp. I]. ~ nh, i412 B fully 
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DEscriPTION: 
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