PARROT. 



301 



Piittacus aurora, Lin. Mantljf. 1771, p. 524. 

 Le Perroquet jaune, Brif. iv. p. 306. N°47. 



Orn. de Sakrne, p. 69. N° 9. t. 7. f. 2. 



L'Amazone jaune, .£»/■. tif. vi. p. 214. t, 10. 

 Perroquet jaune, Pl.enl. 13. 



106. 

 AURORA 

 PARROT. 



length twelve inches. 



CIZE of the Amazons Parrot 



cere white: eyelids and irides red: the whole plumage fine 

 yellow, except the edge of the wing, which is of a fine red : be- 

 neath the wings the yellow is very pale : all the prime quills, ex- 

 cept two or three of the firft, are red on the outer edge, in the 

 middle : tail rounded ; the four outer feathers are red from the 

 bafe to the middle, but only on the inner webs : legs and claws 

 white. 



Inhabits Mexico or Brafil, but moft probably the laft, as M. 

 Sakrne mentions the one which he faw as fpeaking the Port.uguefe 

 tongue very diftin&ly, and was very tame. 



Bill and Description. 



Place, 



Piittacus menftruus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 148. N° 39. — Scop. Ann. i. p. 33, 

 Le Perroquet a telle bleue de la Guiane, Brif. orn. iv. p. 247. N° 2&> 

 Le Papegai a. tete & gorge bleue, Buf. oif. vi. p. 243. 

 Perroquet a. tete bleue de Cayenne, PL enl. 384. 

 Blue-headed Parrot, Ed<w. glean, pi. 314. 



Lev. Muf. 



107. 



BLUE-HEADED 



PARROT.. 



CIZE of the afh-coloured Parrot. Bill dufky, with a red fpot D 



on each fide of the upper mandible: eyes in a dark flefli- co- 

 loured Ikin : head, neck, and part of the breaft, ultramarine blue^ 

 mixed with a little purple on the breaft ; on each fide of the head 



is 



ESCRISTIOH. 



