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PARROT. 



which M. de Buffon fpeaks of* is fome variety of this fpecies, as 

 he fays it has a mixture of green on the wing coverts, as well as a 

 mixture of colours in the tail feathers, the points of which are 

 violet blue : the middle of the tail and the rump are green, bor- 

 dered with yellow : reft of the body faffron or orange-colour. 



I have one of thefe birds, as defcribed by Willughby, in my col- 

 lection ; and there is another in the pofleffion of Capt. Davies ; and 

 I remember likewife to have feen a third, which was a trifle lefs in 

 fize, and had a mixture of here and there a green feather through- 

 out the whole plumage j but the tail was of a pure yellow. I 

 make no doubt of this being a young bird, and that M. de Buffon\ 

 was either lb, or differing in fex. 



28. 



Var. A. 



MEXICAN 



YELLOW 



PARROT. 



Description, 



PiACE. 



La Perrudie jaune du Mexique, Brif. orn. iv. p. 370. 

 Avis Cocho, Pfittaci Mexicani fpecies, Seb. i. t. 64. f. 4. 



TN fize it is equal to the common Parrakeet : length eleven 

 inches. Bill reddifh : the head is of a pale red : the neck of 

 an orange red : back, rump, breaft, belly, fides, thighs, upper and 

 under tail coverts, light yellow : upper wing coverts varied with 

 green, red, and orange : quills green : tail wedge-fhaped, and o£ 

 a pale yellow. 



Inhabits Mexico : fuppofed to be a variety of the laft-f. 



* Sss Planches enlumintes, 535. 



f Hiji. des rif. vi. p. 274. (i) 



Piittacus 



