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blue : quills black, with the margins of fome of them blue and; 

 others green : the two middle tail feathers green ; the next yel- 

 low on the infide halfway from the bafe, near the fhaft reddifh,, 

 the end green 5 the ne*t three on each fide red like the laft, but 

 on both fides ; and the outer one red, with the end yellowifo 

 green, and the outer margin blue : legs grey :. claws brown. 

 Inhabits Martinico. 



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YELLOW- 

 HEADED 

 AMAZONS 

 PARROT. 



D»SCR1PT-10N„ 



Piittacus nobilis *, Lin. Syfi. u p. 140. N° J. 



Le Perroquet Amazone du Brefil, Brif. orn. iv. p. 272. N" 3J. t, 26. f. j.. 



L'Amazone a tete jaune, Buf. oif. vi. p. 208. 



DUFFON places this bird at the head of his Amazonian 

 Parrots, and defcribes it thus : The bill is red at the 

 bafe, and afh-coloured the reft of its length :. irides yellow: 

 top of the head lively bright yellow : throat, neck, back, and 

 upper wing coverts, green : breaft and belly yellowifh green :: 

 ridge of the wing bright red : quills varied with green, black,, 

 violet blue, and red : the two outer tail feathers have the inner 

 webs red at the bafe, beyond that of a deep green to near the end,, 

 which is yellow green : legs grey : claws black. 



Var. A. 

 YELLOW- 

 CROWNED 

 PARROT. 



Description, 



L'Amazone a tete jaune, var i-. Buf. oif. vi. p. 209. 

 Penoquet vert & rouge de Cayenne, PL en!. 312. 



HpHIS bird differs from the former in having only a little yellow 

 on the forehead inftead of the whole crown : the green co- 



* This only regards the fynonyms placed under the nobilis; for he certainly 

 means a different bird, with naked cheeks, fuch as is defcribed in the Muf. 

 Adolphi Fred. ii. p. 13. — noticed by us in p. 207. N° 8, 



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