228 PARROT. 



30. Pfittacus pertinax, Lin. Syft. i. p. 142. N° 15. 



ILLINOIS La Perruche Illinoife, Brif. orn. iv. p. «c*, N° 68.— PI. enl. C28; 



PARROT. T ,. ., „/'.;.. , 5 i 



L Aputejuba, Buf. oif. vi. p. 269. t. 13. 



Kleiner lang fchwartziger grune Papagey, &c. Fri/ch. t. 54. 



Tui Aputejuba, Raiijyn. p. 34. N° 2. 



Tui fpecies fecunda, Rail fyn. p. 181. N°6.—Will.oru. p. 116. 



Yellow -faced Parrakeet, Ediv. t. 234. 



Illinois Parrot, Am. Zool. N° 



Description. CIZE of a common Parrakeet: length nine inches and a half. 

 The bill is of a light aih-colour : eyes and upper mandible 

 placed in a naked afh-coloured fkin : irides deep orange : gene- 

 ral colour green above, yellow green beneath : the forehead, 

 cheeks, and throat, fine orange : crown of the head deep green ; 

 paled toward the hind head, where it is mixed with yellow : fore 

 part of the neck cinereous green : on the belly a few orange 

 fpots : quills blue green, inner margins and lhafts blackifh; the 

 five next the body green : tail cuneated ; the two middle feathers 

 exceed the outer one by an inch and three quarters ; it is green 

 above ; the two middle feathers plain ; fome of the others have 

 cinereous margins, and others yellowifh ones : legs deep afh : 

 claws brown. 

 Place and This inhabits Brafil, and is common at Guiana as well as 



Cayenne; they call it at this laft place Perruche-ponx de his*, as it 



* Wood Loufe Parrot. This infeft belongs to the Termes genus of Linntsus, 

 and is called by the Englilh in the Weft Indies, White or Wood Ant ; in Africa, 

 Fag Vague, or Biigahug : the devaluation of which is too well known in the parts 

 Where they frequent. Confult Adanfori's Voy. to Senegal, 8vo. p. 153, 179.— 

 Bo/man's Voy. to Guinea, p. 276, 493. — Sloan. Jam. vol. ii. p. 221, &c. &c. — 

 See alfo a curious and entertaining paper on this fubjecl by Mr. Smeathtnan, 

 Fhil. Tranf. vol. lxxi. p. 139. 



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