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98. 

 MANILLA 



GREEN 

 PARROT. 



Description. 



Place. 



Pfittacus Lucionenfis, Lin. Sjfi. i. p. 146. N° 31. 



Le Paroquet de L'Ifle de Lucon, Brif. orh. iv. p. 295. t. 22. f. Z. 



QIZE of a common Pigeon : length twelve inches and a half. 

 The bill is fcarlet, with a white tip: cere reddifh: general 

 colour green, with' a call of yellow: hind head, lower part of 

 the back, and rump, blue green : on the fcapulars is a little mix- 

 ture of blue and rufous : greater quills brown on the inner, and 

 yellow on the outer edge ; the third and fourth quills the longeft : 

 tail four inches and three quarters in length ; above green, be- 

 neath yellowifh; the two middle feathers exceed the others in 

 length by one inch : legs cinereous : claws blackifh. 

 Inhabits the Ifland of Luzonia. 



99. 



NEW-GUINEA 



GREEN 



PARROT. 



Description. 



Place. 



Grand Perroquet verd de laNouvelle Guinee, Son. Voy. p. 74. t. 108. 



QIZE of the common Amazons Parrot. The upper mandible 

 of the bill the colour of orpiment; the under black: hides 

 fire r colour : plumage in general of a light grafs green : great 

 quills- indigo blue; the leffer beneath of a carmine red. 

 Inhabits New Guinea. 



100. 

 ROBUST 

 PARROT. 



Description. 



'TpBIS bird, is of a flout, robufl make, being as big as 

 -■ a middle-fized Pigeon. The length is twelve inches. Bill 

 large, flout, and of a white colour ; round the upper man- 

 dible the feathers are blackifh: whole head greenifh grey; 

 the crown has dufky ftreaks down the middle of each fea- 



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