a6S PARROT. 



fo as to appear as a very handfome creft, as Fermin fays it does 

 when angry ; and, as this is a circumftance recorded of no other 

 Parrot, it may perhaps prove the fame bird. 



7S' Le Perroquet de la Guadeloupe, Brif. orn, iv. p. 302. N° 44. 



EU P AflttfSfP Le Crik a t6te Alette, Buf. oif. vi. p. 233. 



Perroquet de la Guadeloupe, Du Tartre Hift. de: Antill, ii. p. 250. f. in p^ 

 246 bad. 



PARROT. 



Discretion, *-|pHIS, fays Du Terire, is fo beautiful and fo fingular a bird, in 

 * refpecl: to its plumage, that it ought to be defcribed. It is 

 near the fize of a Fowl. The bill and the eyes bordered with 

 flefh-colour : head, neck, and belly, violet, with a flight mixture 

 of green and black, and changeable like the bread of a Pigeon : 

 the back brownifh green: the greater quills black; the others 

 yellow, green, and red : on the wing coverts there are two fpots 

 in fhape and colour of rofes. When it ere£ts the neck feathers, Ft 

 snakes the appearance of a ruff round the head, in which it feems 

 to admire itfelf, as a Peacock does with its tail fpread. 



I do not find any one who has feen it befides this author. It ?s 

 siot known now at Guadeloupe, where Du T'ertre affirms he met 

 with it s ; but perhaps the race may be nearly extinft, Parrots of 

 all kinds being the food of the natives of many places j and fuch 



* It rauft once have been plenty, as this author mentions their being very fat 

 at certain feafons, and much coveted for food. He alfo talks of their being 

 very tame, infomach that a pair having made a neft in a large tree, not far 

 from his habitation, the male and female alternately came there for food, and 

 afterwards brought their young, as foon as they were able to fly. fflftl des 

 •Antilles, ii, p-. 25 1 . 



birds,. 



