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F A R R Q T. 



7?' 

 BROWN 



PARROT. 



Description.', 



lie Paroquet brun, Brif. w*. iv. p. 314* N° 51. 



'TpHE whole of this bird is of a plain brown afli-colour : it -\w. 

 a trifle lefs than the afh-coloured Parrot ; and . is thirteen i 

 inches and a half long, Buffon* mentions one, which is in the 

 French king's cabinet, of the fame fize with the laft, but had nei- 

 ther the black mafic, nor was white at the bafe of the tail j perhaps 

 jt might be this bird of Brijfon's ; or, as it had the bill fmall in j 

 proportion, may prove an intermediate fpecies, between the two j 

 laft, partaking much of both. 



?4- 



HAWK- 



HEADED 



PARROT. 



Description. 



Fiittacus accipitnnus, Liu. Sjft. i. p. 14$. N° 38. 



Le Perruche varie des Indes, Sri/, em. iv. p. 300. N° 43= 



Le Perroquet varie, Buf. oif. vi. p. 117. 



Pfittacus elegans Clufri, Rait Syn. p. 32. N° II. 



Hawk-headed Parrot, Ediu. iv. t. 165. 



CIZE of a- fmall Pigeon: length twelve inches and a half. Bill 

 •and cere blackifh : round the eyes the fame, and bare : irides 

 deep yellow or hazel : head, cheeks, and throat, brown j on each 

 feather is a paler ftripe down the middle : neck, breaft, and belly., 

 purple; the feathers edged with blue: back, rump, fcapulars 3 

 upper wing and tail coverts, fine green: fides and under lefier 

 wing coverts yellow green ; the greater ones blue black : prime 

 quills black above, the outer edges and tips blue ; the feconda- 

 ries green: tail a little rounded, and five inches and a quarter - 

 long ; above green ; all the feathers except the two middle ones 

 have blue tips j beneath blue black 



legs and claws dark lead- 



Miji. des oi/% vi. p, 12.J. 



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