262 



PARROT, 



68. 



Var. A. 



RED-WINGED 



ASH. 



COLOURED 



PARROT. >~jpHIS differs from the other merely in having the wings 



Le Perroquet de Guinee a ailes rouges, Brif. orn. iv. p. 313. A» 



A 



marked with red. 



68. 



Var. B. 



RED AND ASH- 



COLOURED 



PARROT. 



Le Perroquet de Guinee varie de rouge, Brif. orn. iv. p. 313. E. 

 Afti-coloured and red Parrot, Ednu. iv. t. 163. 



Description. •'~f~*'HIS too is a variety, having many red feathers mixed 



1 



throughout with the grey ones. 



68. 

 Var.C. 



Pfittacus ruber, Scop. Ann. i. p. 32, N° 31. 



CCOPOLI alfo mentions a further variety. This had the head 

 afh-coloured : cheeks quite naked : on the bread two brown 

 feathers : prime quills cinereous brown: colour of the reft of the 

 body not mentioned *, only that the tail is red. 



A friend of mine has one of the firft defcribed, which has two 

 feathers on the middle of the breaft crimfon, which has not varied 

 for many years. 



It is not unufual for female Parrots to lay eggs in this country, 

 but as they are not impregnated, no heed is taken of them. A 

 gentleman f at Marmande in France had a male and female, which 

 for five or fix years together produced young ones. They made 



* Mod likely it was red, from his naming it the Ffittacus ruber (red Parrot). 

 f M, le Pigeanilre. Hi/?, dei oif. vi. p. 115. 



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