PARROT. 



Le Perroquet Amazone a gorge jaune, BriJ. on. iv. p. 287. N° 38. 

 Le Crik a tete & a. gorge jaune, Buf. oif. vi. p. 222. 

 Yellow-headed Creature *, Bauer. Guian. p. 159, 



X ENGTH thirteen inches. Bill whitifh: cere hoary: orbits 

 naked, whitifh : irides yellow : general colour green : the 

 feathers on the hind part of the neck and the back have black 

 margins : the forehead whitifh afh : top of the head, cheeks, 

 throat, and fore part of the neck, yellow : hind head yellow 

 green : thighs and ridge of the wing yellow: leffer wingcoverts 

 next the body red, with yellow edges ; thofe fartheft from the 

 body quite yellow : reft of the coverts green : greater quills 

 black, fome with blue and green edges ; four of the middle ones 

 red at the bafe within, for three-fourths of their length : the four 

 middle tail feathers green, near the end yellowifh ; the three next 

 red half way from the bafe, the reft yellow green, with a deep 

 green fpot between the two colours ; all of them margined with 

 yellow green outwardly; the two outfide ones the fame, but the 

 outer edges blue : legs hoary: claws cinereous. 



Found with the laft ; as alfo in Guiana, according to Bancroft. 

 Buffon obferves much on the fenfibility of this fpecies ; of which 



. 93- 

 YELLOW- 

 WINGED 

 PARROT. 



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• It may be wondered why the name Creature mould be applied to a Parrot; 

 but Mr. Bancroft thus explains it : Parrots, fays he, are diftinguifhed by two 

 names, <viz. Parrots properly fo called, and thofe termed Creatures : the firft are 

 fuch as are docile, and will learn to talk ; the fecond refemble the former in every 

 particular, except that they have lefs docility, and have a habit of nodding when 

 any attempt is made to handle them : a cuftom of which they never can be di- 

 verted, though they are often taught to fpeak very diftindlly. 



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