232 PARROT. 



Bancroft* fays that it is the moft numerous" of all Parrokeets 

 in Guiana; and that it is alfo found in Terra Firma } as well as in 

 fome of the Caribbee IJlands. 



34. La Perruche de la Guiane, Brif. orn. iv. p. 331. N" 59. t. 28. f. 1. 



P PARR0T JE La Perriche Pav ° ua ne. Buf. oif. vi. p. 255. 



Perruche de la Guiane, PL enl. 407. a young bird. 

 — - de la Guiane, PL enl. 167. in full plumage. 



Lev. Muf. 



Discretion. JT is one foot in length. The bill is whitifh ; tip cinereous: 

 cere whitifh : parts above deep green ; beneath paler : cheeks 

 fpotted with red : under lefTer wing coverts fcaiiet ; the greater 

 of a fine yellow : the quills beneath are dull yellow ; at the mar- 

 gins near the tips blackifh ; but above they are the fame colour 

 as the back, and margined with yellowifh grey'within : the fhafts 

 of all of them, except the. three neareft the body, are black : tail 

 in length fix inches and a quarter ; the two middle feathers are 

 longer than the outer ones by three inches : legs grey : claws 

 blackifh. 

 Place. Inhabits Guiana. 



Buffon obferves, that when young, thefe birds have not 

 the fides of the head and neck fpotted with red, nor do thefe 

 fpots appear till the bird is two or three years old ; but the under 

 wing coverts are red, even in the young birds, though of a paler 

 colour. This is very common at Cayenne-, and found in the Ca- 



* He adds, that at Guiana there is a red-headed one, differing only in having 

 die feathers of its head diversified with crimfon fpots. Hiji. of Guiana, p. 162. 

 Green Parrots with long tails (Piittacus articularius) are \ery numerous at 

 Suratle. Toreen. Voy. vol. ii. p. 200. . 



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