PARROT. alj 



! ioar is alfo lefs bright, or a kind of yellowifh green '. on the wing 

 a little red as in che laft: and a (hade of yellow under the tail £ 

 the bill is reddiih, and the legs grey, the fize. is the fame, fo as 

 to put it out of doubt the being a variety^ the length about 

 nine inches. 



This, fays Bujfyn, has not laeen mentioned by any naturalift be- 

 fore, although the bird is known at Guiana by the name of the 

 J> aft ard Amazon, or half Amazon •, and they fay that it fprings from 

 a crofs breed with another Parrot. 



One in the Leverian Mufeum has the forehead and fides of the 

 head, as far as the ears, yellow $ the reft x>{ the head and body 

 green ; the ridge of the wing is red, and a fpot of the fame in the 

 middle of the wing, &c. like the others. 



In the fame place is another, fuppofed to be younger, in which 

 the yellow on the forehead is not diftindV being mixed with 

 green : the ridge of the wing likewife is of a mixed red-colour, 

 and the end of the bafe of the tail not fo dark ; it has a line of 

 black juft round the bill, and the fize not fo large. 



Le Perroquet Amazone a bee varie, Brif. em. iv. p. 27©> o 



L'Amazone a tete jaune, var. z. Buf. oif. vi. p. zio. Var. B. 



Piittacus Poikilorhynchos Aldrovandi, Rati Sytt, p. 30. N° 3. PARTY-BILLED 

 Aldrovandus his Parrot, with a parti-coloured bill, Will. orn. p. 1 13. PARROT. 



HTHIS is as large as a Fowl : and is in length eighteen inches. Descri?tjo:t., 



It varies chiefly in the bill j and is defcribed by Willughby in 

 this manner : " The upper chap in the upper part was of a 

 blueifii green 3 of a yellow oker on the fides -, the tip croffed 

 with a white fpot ; the lower chap of the bill of a lead-colour 

 round about, and yellow in the middle." 



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