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lour : forehead fcarlet : top of the head blue : on each cheek, un- 

 der the eye, an orange foot : the reft of the plumage green, paieft 

 beneath : upper ridge of the wing yellow, but in other particulars 

 like the laft but one. 



Bancroft tells us it. is in Guiana. 



9 6. 



Var.C. 



ERASILIAN 



GREEN 

 PARROT. 



Pfittacus Brafilienfis, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 147. N° 36. 



Le Perroquet a front rouge du Brelil, Brif. orn. iv. p. 254. N° 30; 



Le Crik a tete bleue, Btif. oif. vi. 232. var. 3. 



Brafilian green Parrot, Edtu. iv. t. 161. 



1 — — j Bancroft Guiana, p. 160. 



Description. CIZE of a common tame Pigeon. Bill flefh-colour : forehead 

 and throat red : under and behind each eye blue : top of the 

 head yellowifh green : moft of the body green : lower ridge of 

 the wing red : part of the quill feathers blue : middle tail feathers 

 green, outermoft but one red, the outer one blue; the whole tail 

 tipped with fine yellow : legs brownifh afh. So far Edwards, who 

 was informed that it came from Brafil ; and, according to Mr. 

 Bancroft, Guiana. 



Buffon fuppofes it a variety only of the others *. 



* M. Scofoli mentions a Parrot, which he thinks to be a variety 3 and defcribes 

 it thus : — Size of a Miffel-Thrufh : forehead and crown red: bill horn-colour, 

 bafe of it brown : cheeks naked : general colour of the plumage green : quills 

 and tail blue on' the outer edges: rump yellow green. — See Pfitt. pileatus, 

 Scop' ann. i. p. 22. N° 32. 



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