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PARROT, 



26. 



YELLOW- 

 HEADED 

 PARROT, 



Place. 



La petite Perruche jaune des Brefil, Brif. orti. iv. p. 399. N a 91. 

 Le Jendaya, Buf. oif. vi. p. 262. 

 Jendaya, Rail Syn. p. 34. N° 5. 

 Will. orn. p. 1.16. fed. 4. N° ;, 



Description. CIZE of a' Blackbird. Bill black : orbits naked, white : irides 





gold-colour : colour of the plumage green above, yellow be- 

 neath : bottom of the belly green : head and neck yellow : legs 

 and claws black. 



Inhabits Brafd, and called Jendaya. M. de Buffon has ventured 

 to place this among the long-tailed fpecies, though Brijfon has 

 ranked it with the fhort-tailed ones : in fa£t, neither of them 

 knows for certain, as they are both copyifts of Marcgrave, who 

 does not mention the fhape of the tail. 



27. 

 ANGOLA 

 YELLOW 

 PARROT. 



Description. 



Pfittacus folftitialis, Lin. Syjl.l. p. 141. N° 12. 

 La Perruche jaune d'Angole, Brif. orn.br. p. 371. N° 76. 

 Le Perruche jaune, Buf. oif. vi. p. 147. 

 Langfchwantziger gelber papagcy, Frifch. t. 53. 

 Pfittacus aurantius, J. Fr. Miller, pi . 5 . 

 Parroquet from Angola, Albin. iii. t. 13. 

 Lev. Muf. 



T ENGTH eleven inches and a half: fize of a Turtle. Bill 

 greenifh afh-colour : eyes and bafe of the bill furrounded 

 with a pale afh-coloured fkin : irides dull yellow : general colour 

 of the plumage orange yellow : the back and wing coverts marked 

 with yellow green fpots : the rump and upper tail coverts yel- 

 low green: fides and thighs red: wing coverts neareft the body 



" yellowifh 



