3°4 



PARROT. 



no. 



DUSKY 

 PARROT. 



Description. 



Pfittacus fordidus, Lin. Sjjt. i. p. 148. N° 40. 



Le Perroquet de la Nouvelle Efpagne, Brif. orn. ir. p. 



Le Papegai brun, Buf. oif. vi. p. 246. 



Dufky Parrot, Edto. iv. t. 167. 



303. N°45 



Place, 



QIZE of the laft. Bill at the bafe yellow ; black in the middle 

 of the upper mandible, and the reft of it red : cere blackifh : 

 orbits naked, pale cinereous : irides dark hazel : top of the head 

 dufky ■, fides and hind part greeniih : throat blue : back dufky : 

 rump and tail above greeniih : the under tail coverts fine red : 

 from the throat to the vent cinereous brown : wing coverts green, 

 as are the lelTer quills, but fome of thefe are bordered with yel- 

 lowifh ; greater quills green: tail a little rounded; the outer 

 edge blue : legs lead-colour : claws black. 



Brought from New Spain, This bird is not common. 



in. 



ORANGE- 

 HEADED 

 PARROT. 



Description. 



Le Papegai a tete aurore, Buf. oif. vi. p. 247. 



■ 1 Voy. a la Louif. du Pratz. ii. 



128. 



r R. Page du Pratz is the only one who has defcribed this 

 bird •, and fays it is about the fize of Parrots ufually brought 

 into France. The plumage in general is a fine fea-green, but the 

 head is covered with yellow, which grows red towards the bill, 

 and mixed by degrees with the green on the fides of the body. 

 This is all the defcription. He adds, that it does not fpeak well, 

 and is feldom kept, for that reafon. It is not very noify when 

 tamed ; but in its wild ftate pierces the air with its cry, which is 

 (brill ; and great numbers herd together. It lives on pacanes, pine- 

 apple 



