PARROT. 



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and are dull red beneath ; tail cuneiform, as in the other ; the two 

 middle feathers pale blue, the next half red, half blue, the four outer 

 ones blue, with a tinge of violet next the shaft, the whole dull red 

 beneath ; legs brown. 



Mr. Bancroft says, it is peculiar to Guiana, and adds, that the 

 bill is black ; Brisson makes it a native of Brazil and Jamaica, and 

 both suppose it to be distinct. The PL enlum. give figures of both. 

 In that of the first described, the bare space not only surrounds the 

 eve, but extends to the base of the under jaw, but in the latter the 

 eve alone is surrounded with it ; in both the bill is black. Albin's 

 figure has a white space round the eye, but not seemingly bare of 

 feathers; probably the two only differ in age. 



3— PATAGONIAN MACCAW. 



Le Patagon, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 277. 



LENGTH seventeen inches and a half. Bill dusky; round the 

 eye bare, and whitish ; general colour of the plumage greenish 

 yellow; on the middle of the belly a large patch of red, and a 

 lighter tint of the same on the thigh feathers ; quills deep blue, and 

 the outer part of the wing coverts ; the others, and under coverts 

 greenish yellow ; quills dusky, but bright ; tail eight inches and 

 three quarters long, deep green, towards the point blue ; forehead 

 dull violet ; top and sides of the head greenish brown ; fore part of 

 the neck, and upper part of the breast brown ; legs pale olive. 



Some of these birds are smaller than others, and are supposed 

 to be females. 



Inhabits Buenos Ayres, from the 32d degree of latitude to the 

 Patagonian Coast ; feeds on the seeds of thistles, maize, &c. ; lives 

 in companies, roosts at night in holes of any kind ; supposed to 

 be a new species. 



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