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HORNED 



PARROT. 



Pl.VIH. 



Description. 



Place. 



49. 



CALEDONIAN 



PARROT. 



JDescriftion. 



T ENGTH eleven inches : fize of a fmall Dove. The bill is 

 blueifh at the bafe, and black at the tip : irides of a golden 

 yellow : forehead, crown, nape, and region of the ears, deep 

 fcarlet, mixed with black : fides of the head yellowifh orange : 

 the lower mandible is befet with deep black fliining feathers, 

 pointing forwards : from the crown lpring two flender dufky fea- 

 thers, about an inch and a half long, and tipped with crimfon *. 

 the hind part of the neck, and the rump, are yellowifh : the reft 

 of the body green : the wing coverts green outwardly, but the 

 inner webs and tips are dufky : the quills are black ; the outer 

 margins of them blue : tail cuneiform, fix inches in length, and 

 of the fame blue colour as the quills, but green on the outer 

 edges, near the bafe ; near, the ends, and the tips, almoft white ; 

 the under part of the tail and quills foot black : legs dufky 

 blue. 



This fpecies inhabits New Caledonia*, and is called by the na- 

 tives Kere or Keghe. I found this bird in the colle&ion of Sir 

 Jof. Banks, where there is a perfedt and fine fpecimen ; I believe 

 the only one that has reached England. 



T ENGTH twelve inches. Bill blueifh ; tip pale : the feathers- 

 round the upper mandible crimfon ; thofe round the lower, 

 and the chin, blue : crown greenifh yellow : the plumage on the 



* In CooPsFoy. vol. ii. p. no, a bird is figured, which I take to be this 5 

 but it feems to have been done more by way of ornament to the plate, than ex- 

 preffive of the bird. 



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