PARROT, 



3*1 



La petite Perruche des Indes, Brif. orn. iv. p. 390. N° 86. 

 Smalleft red and green Indian Parrot, Ed-vj. i. t. 6. 



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RED AND 



GREENINDIAN 



PARROT. 



s 



IZE of the laft. Bill bright orange :. fkin. round the eyes of a Description 

 pale flefh-colour : top of the head red, or deep orange : reft 

 of the body green, paleft beneath : the lower half of the rump 

 and upper tail coverts red, like that of the head : infide of the 

 quills and under the tail blueifti green : legs and claws flefh- 

 colour. 



This came from the Eajl-Indies. Buffon feems to think it a Place, 



variety of the laft ; but the red on the head is not fituated the 

 fame, and the great difference in the colour of the rump incline 

 me to think otherwife ; at leaft, I have ventured here to place it 

 as a diftinft fpecies, till further obfervation. 



La petite Perruche des Philippines, Brif. em. iv. p. 392. N° 87. t. 30. f. 1, 



Le Coulaciifi, Buf. oif. vi. p. 169. 



Perruches des Philippines, PL enl. 520. f. 1.2. male y fimelle. 



CIZE of a Houfe Sparrow: length five inches. Bill red: ge- 

 neral colour of the plumage green, brighteft beneath: fore- 

 head, throat, and fore part of the neck, red : the head yellow 

 green : beneath the hind head is a tranfverfe orange band : rump 

 and tail coverts red : greater quills blackifh, with deep green 

 edges : tail rounded, and almoft covered by the red upper tail co- 

 verts : legs and claws red. 



The 



119. 



PHILIPPINE 

 PARRAKEET, 



Description, 



