PARED T, 



bill is much fmaller, and the tail longer, than is ufual in this 

 genus, 



Inhabits Madagafcar .-"-Mem. That defcribed by Edwards had 

 three or four white feathers in each wing. 



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PfcACg, 



Pfittacus Mafcarinus, Lin, Mant. 1771. p. 524. 

 Le Perroquet Mafcarin, Sri/, cm, iv. p. 3J5, N° 520 

 Xe Mafcarin, Buf. oijf. vi. p. izo. t. 5. 

 Mafcarin, PL enl. 35. 



Lev. Mu/. a variety, 



fpHIS fpecies is bigger than the ajh-coloured Parrot : length 

 thirteen inches and a half. The bill and cere are reddifh : 

 the bafe of the bill is furrounded with black, for half an inch in 

 breadth : orbits bare, and of a light red : irides red ; top of the 

 head, and hind part of the neck, pale afh : back, rump, fore part 

 of the neck, breaft, belly, fides, fcapulars, upper and under, tail 

 and wing coverts, deep afh, as are the greater quills : tail the 

 fame, but the fide feathers are whitifh at the bafe : legs pale flefh- 

 colour : claws grey *, 



Linnaus fays it inhabits Mafcarin ; but Bujfon derives his name 

 from the bird having a fort of mafic -j- round the bill. 



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MASCARINE 



PARROT, 



Description* 



Places 



* In the Leverian Mu/eum is one of thefe, with the mafk in front. The 

 ground colour of the plumage the fame as in the above, but irregularly 

 fprinkled with white feathers throughout ; the tail, part white, part brown, bue 

 not regular 5 fome of the quills and tail feathers being wholly white, while the 

 ©ppofites, which mould have anfwered them, were white and brown ; it is a par- 

 ticular and beautiful lu/us natura. 



f " Parcequ'il a au tour du Bee, une forte ds mafque noir/' 



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