ORNITHOLOGY. 



PSITTACUS NONPAREIL ; or NONPAREIL 

 PARROT, 



Character — Bill hooked, prehensile; feet scaled and strong- 

 ly armed with claws ; the head and neck scarlet ; 

 the back blue streaked with yellow. 



THE specimen here described is a native of Botany Bay, 

 and has lately been imported alive into England ; its plu- 

 mage consists of an assemblage of the richest and most 

 striking colours, and is delineated from the Museum of 

 Mr. Bullock. In size it is considerably less than the 

 common parrot, but does not resemble it in the imitation 

 of the human voice ; the cry which it sometimes utters, 

 being rather like that of a Turtle Dove. The Parrot, 

 Parroquet and Lory differ chiefly from each olher in the 

 size of the body, and in the form of the tail, but the 

 general discriminating character of the bill is similar 

 throughout the different tribes. 



The celebrated naturalist, Linnaeus, has divided the 

 families of the feather'd part of the creation into six orders ; 



1. Accipitres ; or Predacious Birds : such as Vultures, 

 Eagles, Hawks, Owls, and a few others, distinguished by 

 the bill being of a crooked form. 



2. Passer es j or Passerine Birds : comprising Pigeons, 

 Larks, Thrushes and all the Finches or small birds in gene- 

 ral, cither with thick or slender bills, 



