PARROT, 



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o-reen, with a gilded glofs : fore part of the body yellow, fliaded 

 with green : tail green above, yellow beneath : back blue green : 

 the wing appears tinged with a mixture of fky-blue and green, 

 according to different afpedts : the coverts are black ; the fea- 

 thers edged and variegated with daflies of gilded yellow. 

 Inhabits New Guinea. 



Le grand Perroquet vert a tete bleu, Buf. oif. vi. p. 1 22. 

 Perroquet d'Amboine, PL enl. 862. 



'TT^HIS is likewife a very large bird, being fixteen inches in 

 length. The forehead and crown are blue: the reft of the 

 plumage is grafs-green, with a great mixture of blue on the 

 quills: the under parts of the body are olive green-: the tail is 

 ihort ; above green, and of a dull yellow beneath : legs lead- 

 colour. 



Inhabits Amboina. 



87. 

 AMBOINA 

 PARROT. 



Description. 



Place. 



Pfittacus Ieucocephalus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 14;. N° 30. 

 Le Perroquet de la Martinique, Brif. orn. iv. p. 242. 

 L'Amazone a tete blanche, Buf. oif. vi. p. 212. t. 9. 

 Perroquet a front blanc du Senegal, PL enl. 335. 

 White-headed Parrot, Edvj.iv. t. 166. 

 Lev. Muf. 



N° 26. 



88 

 WHITE- 

 FRONTED 

 PARROT, 



CIZE of a imall Pigeon. Bill fleih-colour : cere white, as is Description, 



the fpace round the eyes : irides dark hazel : general colour 

 of the plumage green ; the feathers margined with brown, moft 

 confpicuous on the fore parts : the forehead is white : crown of 



the 



