PARROT. 



281 



Inhabits Martinko, Jamaica, Mexico. 



By mixing his references, Linnaeus means to rank the two laft 

 as one. They are certainly varieties of each other at leaft, and as 

 fuch I have placed them. This laft wants the blue on the 

 crown : the belly is darker : and the tail differs in colour. 



Lev. Maf. 



ENGTH ten inches and a half. Bill pale yellow : cere and 

 orbits cinereous : foreh'ead.to the middle of the crown white ; 

 the reft of the head above pale blue j on each fide of the head, 

 between the eye and bill, a fpot of red : the plumage in general 

 a full green; the margins of the feathers brown black; but on 

 the throat and belly not margined, and of a lighter green : the 

 baftard wing, and the middle part of one or more of the fecond 

 quills, are red -, greater quills blue ; fome of the outer ones green 

 on the outer edges, the ends black : the tail is rounded ; the two 

 middle feathers dark green ; bafe of the tail crimfon ; the reft 

 green ; darkeft on the edges ; the fhafts cheftnut. 



Place. 



88. 

 Var.B. 

 WHITE- 

 CROWNED 

 PARROT. 



Description. 



Le Perroquet a tete bleue de la Martinique, Brif. orn. iv. pi 251. 

 Le Papegai a ventre pourpre, Buf. oif. vi. p. 242. 

 ■■ de la Martinique, PL enl. 548. 



N 2 9 . 



CIZE of a Pigeon: length eleven inches and a half. Bill and 

 cere white: orbits the fame: general colour green : moft of 

 the feathers margined with black : forehead white : top of the 

 head blue afh : belly red and green mixed : thighs blue green : 

 bend of the wing white : baftard wing, and feathers adjacent, 



O o blue : 



Var. C. 

 ASH- 

 CROWNED 

 PARROT. 



Description. 



