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the head blue, with a few red fpots : cheeks, throat, and fore 

 part of the neck, fine fcarlet : belly green, with a mixture of red, 

 and in fome ferruginous: greater quills blue, benea h Hackifh : 

 the two middle tail feathers green ; the three next on each fide 

 red for three parts of the way from the bafe, the ends green; 

 the oucfide ones the fame, but blueifh on the outfides: legs and 

 claws deep brown. Edwards fays, that in fome the ridge of the 

 wing is red, and in others not. 

 Place. Inhabits Marlimco, and other parts. 



88. Le Perroquet 1 Gorge rouge de la Martinique, Brif. »rn~ Iv. p. 244. N° 27. 



V ar. ". L'Amazone a. tete blanche, Buf. oif. vi. p. 212. var. 



-t- WHITE- 

 HEADED Perroquet de la Martinique, PL enl. 549. ; ' ,- 



PARROT. Pfrttacus leucocephalus Aldrov. Rait Syn. p. 31. N° 5. p. 181. N° 7. 



White-headed Parrot of Aldrovandus, Will, om, p. 1 13. N°5. 



Le-v. Muf. 



Description. T ENGTH twelve inches and a half. Bill and cere flefli- 

 colour : the bare fpace round the eye white : hides hazel : 

 forehead, to the middle of the crown, white : throat, and fore 

 part of the neck, pale red ; the feathers margined with white : 

 hind head and uppr r parts of the body, the breaft, and fides, are 

 green ; each feather margined with black brown- or black : belly 

 dull purple : thighs on the infide the fame, but on the outfide 

 green : greater wing coverts farthefr. from the body blue, the 

 inner webs black at the bafe : greater quills blue, the inner 

 webs black ; the lefTer green : the two middle tail feathers green ; 

 the next on each fide green on the outfide, and yellow within ; the 

 four outer ones on the infide, halfway from the bafe, red, then 

 yellow, with a greenifh ydlow end; rfte outfide green, with the 

 tips on both fides blue: legs flelh- coloured : claws grey. 



Inhabits 



