PARROT. 



ther: neck and body green, paleft on the under parts: the 

 rump and upper tail coverts are alfo of a very pale green : wing 

 coverts dufky black, each feather fringed with green on the 

 margin : the quills are brown : on the bend of the wing is 

 a fpot of crimfon ; and on the outer edge, about the middle, it is 

 crimfon alfo : the tail is even at the end, and, like the quills, 

 brown : the legs dufky. 



In Sir Jofeph Banks's collection : from whence unknown. 



297 



Pfjttacus agilis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 143. N° 20. 

 Le Perroquet de Cayenne, Brif. era, iv. p. 237 

 Le Criq, Buf. oif. vi. p. 228. 

 Criq de Cayenne, PL enl. 839. 

 Little green Parrot, Ediv. iv. t. 168. 



N° 



101. 



AGILE 



PARROT. 



C1ZE of a fmall Pigeon : length ten inches and a half. Bill afh- Description. 



colour : irides dark hazel : round the eye bare, and afh-co- 

 loured : the plumage in general of a dark green, lighter!: beneath : 

 quills blue, the inner webs and tips black : one of the feathers of 

 the greater coverts is red, and falls over the quills : the two mid- 

 dle tail feathers are green ■, the three next on each fide are red 

 three parts of the way on the inner web, the reft green; the 

 two middle feathers a trifle longer than the others : legs afh- 

 colour. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and other parts of America. Place. 



Q-q 



Pfittacus 



