PARROT. iU 



and lower wing coverts, of a dirty white, or pale afh-colour : the 

 lower part of the back, rump, upper and lower tail coverts, 

 quills, and tail, are vermilion : the legs are blackifh : claws 

 black. 



Where it inhabits unknown. 



Pfittacus erithacus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 144. N° 24. — Self. Ann. 1. p. 31. N° 30. 68. 



Le Perroquet cendre de Guinee, Brif. orn. iv. p. 310. N° 49. +" "_. 



■ - — ou le Jaco, Buf. oif, vi. p. 100. — Pl.enlum. 311. PARROT 



Der grave Papagey, der rother fchwantz, Frijch. t. 5 1 . 

 Pfittacus cinereus, feu fubcaeruleus Aldrov. Rait Syn. p. 31. N° 7. 

 Afh-coloured Parrot, Will. orn. p. 114. N°7. — Albin.l. pi. 12. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



'TpHIS is a well-known Parrot: of the fize of a fmall Pigeon: Description. 



the length is twenty inches. The bill is black : cere and 

 fkin round the eyes meally and white : iris yellowifh white : ge- 

 neral colour cinereous : the feathers on the head, neck, and under 

 parts, have hoary edges : the rump and lower part of the belly 

 are hoary, with cinereous edges : the tail is of a bright red j the 

 lhafts blackifh : legs afh-colour : claws blackifh. 



This bird talks well, at leaft equal to the green Parrot, but is 

 much lefs noify at other times. It is called by fome Jaco, from. 

 that word being very plainly repeated by the bird. 



It is from Guinea that they are .uiually fetched, being firfb Place and 

 brought from the inland parts of Africa ; they are found alfo 

 at Congo, and on the coafls of Angola. As to the common man- 

 ners of this bird in the tame ftate, they are well known in Eng- 

 land, as well as elfewhere. 



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