284 



PARROT, 



go. 



ASH-FRONTED 



PARROT. 



Le Perroquet des Barbades, Brif. »rn. iv, p. 236. N° 22. 

 Green and yellow Parrot from Barbadoes, Albin. iii. 1. 1 1. 



Description. 



Place. 



CIZE of a large Pigeon. Bill horn-colour : cere and orbits ci- 

 nereous : forehead pale afh-colour : top of the head, cheeks, 

 throat, and fore part of the neck, yellow : lefler wing coverts and 

 thighs the fame : greater wing coverts, fartheft from the body, 

 of a fine blue : the outer edge of the firft prime quills violet j 

 and of fome of the others red from the bafe to the middle, the- 

 reft of the length blue : fecondaries green : tail green ; the two 

 middle feathers a trifle the longeft : legs cinereous :. claws. 

 black. 



Inhabits Barbadoe:, 



91. 



COMMON 

 AMAZONS 

 PARROT. 



Pfittacus asftivus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 146. N°"j2. 



Le Perroquet Amazone, Brif. orn. iv. p. 256. N° jk. 



L'Aourou-couraou, Buf.oif.vi. p. 215. 



Le Perroquet- Amazone, PL enl. 547.. 



Ajuru-curau, Raii Syn. p. 3Z. N° 1. 



Marcgravius's middle-fized Parrot, lft fpecies, Will. era. p. ny; 



Description. / *T" S HE bill is blackifh : irides gold-colour: the forehead, and' 

 between the eyes, blueifh ; the red of the head yellow : 

 throat yellow : the fathers edged with blueifh green : the 

 reft of the body light green, verging to yellow on the back and 

 belly :. ridge of the wing red : upper wing coverts green : quills 

 varied with green, black, yellow, violet blue, and red : tail green,, 



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