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PARROT. 



9. Pfittacus feverus, Lln.Syft.'i. p. 140. N° 6. 



BR GREEN N **■ Am ' L P" ^ ^' 



MACCAW,. L'Ara verd du Brefil, .Br//". orn. iv. p. 198. N° 6. 



L'Ara verd & rouge du Brefil, .fir// orn. iv. p. 202. N° 7. 



L'Ara vert, .fla/". e(/I vi. p. 194. t. 8. 



L'Ara verd du Brefil, PL enl. 383. 



Maracana , Will. orn. 112. N° 5. 6. 



Brafilian green Maccaw, Ed-vj. t. 229. 



Description, '"T**BIS bird is equal to the grey Parrot in fize : in length one 

 foot five inches. The bill is black ; and it has a bare white 

 ifkin on the cheeks, marked with fome lines of black, in which-the 

 eyes are placed : irides of a golden yellow : the general colour of 

 the plumage is green : the forehead cheftnut purple ; at the lower 

 jaw a ftripe of the fame * : crown blue, which colour blends itfelf 

 by degrees with the green, as it paries backwards : on the lower 

 part of the thighs the feathers are red : edge of the wing crim- 

 fon : fome of the wing coverts and quills are blue, and the outer 

 edge of the lad black: tail above green; near the ends bluej 

 beneath of a dull red : legs brown : claws black. 



I believe this bird to be the fame with the fmall Maccaw of 

 Shane f, as well as both the green Maccaws of Brijfon ; the dif- 

 ference confiding, by his defcription, merely in having the fore- 

 head brown, the crown a blue green, and the green colour 

 darker than in the other. 

 Place. Both of them are common at Jamaica, Guiana, and Brafil. 



* This is not exprefied in the Planches cnluminees ; nor is there any red on the 

 lower part of the thighs. 



f Which he fays are common in the woods, and eaten as Pigeons; but when 

 young are tamed and kept as Parrots. Shane Jam. vol. ii. p. 297. N° 6. 



Pfittacus 



