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colour. When this bird is provoked, it fets up the feathers round 



the neck like a ruff*. 

 Inhabits the Eafl Indies. 



Place.' 



Le Papegai maille, Buf.oif. vi. p, 239, t. '-xa. 

 Le Perroquet maill« 3 PL enl. 526. 



'^TpHE top of the head, and round the face, covered with nar- 

 * row and long white feathers ftriped with blackifh : hind 

 head and fides of the neck of a fine red brown edged with blue : 

 ■breaft and ftomach fhaded with the fame, with a glofs of green : 

 the upper parts of the body and tail are of a glolTy green : the 

 •quills, and under the tail, are brown j and the edges of the tail 

 feathers violet blue. When this bird is irritated, it fets up the 

 feathers round the head like a. ruff. 



This, fays Buffon, is only a variety of the lafl: bird, hav- 

 ing been brought originally from the Eoft Indies, and now natu- 

 ralifed to Guiana, where it is now found. It is obferved to have 

 a fharp and fhrill cry, different from all other Parrots of the Ame- 

 rican continent. 



1 have fome notion that this is the bird mentioned by Fermin, 

 by the name of Perroquet varied . He fays that the feathers of 

 the neck are variegated, of a deep reddifh cofour tipped with 

 elegant blue : belly the fame, but fprinkled with brown : back 

 green : quills blueifh : tail all green. • 



This defcription fomewhat differs ; but what ftrikes me, is the 

 circumftance of the bird's fetting up the feathers round the head 



• See this remarked by Clujitts, in his difcourfe on Parrots, Will, orn. p. 1 19- 

 + De/cr, diSurin. ii. p, 176. 



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 Var. A. 

 MAILED 

 PARROT. 



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