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PARROT FINCH. 



(Fringilla psittacea.) 



Fr. viridis,Jacie uropygio rectricibusque coccineis, lateribus intus 



Jiiscis. 

 Green Finch, with the face, rump, and tail scarlet, the inner 



side brown. 

 Fringilla psittacea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 903. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1. 417- 61. 

 Parrot Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 287- 54. t. 48. 



This beautiful species is a native of New Cale- 

 donia : in length about four inches : beak black : 

 face, throat, rump, and tail, bright scarlet : rest of 

 the body of a beautiful green, lightest beneath: 

 outer edge of the quills green; the inner grey- 

 brown : wings reach to the base of the tail, which 

 is wedge-shaped, and has the two middle feathers 

 bright scarlet, with brown shafts ; the other five 

 on each side have only the outer web scarlet, the 

 inner being brown. 



