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shape of the tail are mentioned, yet from the name of Maccaw being 

 given to it, the latter is probably cuneiform. 



Said by De Laet, to inhabit Guiana, but never approaching near 

 habitations, keeping on the tops of dry and barren mountains, and 

 rocks in the inland parts. 



10.— OBSCURE PARROT. 



Psittacus obscurus, Lid. Orn.'x. 84. Lin.'i. 140. Gm. Lin. i. 314. Hasselq. It. 23G, 



Id. Engl. 196. 

 Obscure Parrot, Gen. Syn.\. 206, Shaves Zool. viii. 400. 



SIZE of a Jay. Bill black, the feathers round the base of it 

 black, rough, and beset with hairs; space round the eye white; 

 irides yellow ; crown variegated cinereous and black ; upper parts of 

 the neck and wings black ; belly and thighs cinereous, marked with 

 transverse hoary lines ; tail wholly ash-coloured, cuneiform ; legs 

 tuberculated, black ; toes the same ; claws crooked, and black. 



Inhabits Africa. The only one who has described this is 

 Hasselquist, from whom Linnaeus had his account ; as to that which 

 the latter refers to in Brisson, it is quite a different species, and he 

 mentions it as such in his last Mantissa.* 



11.— NOBLE PARROT. 



Psittacus nobilis, Ind.Orn. i. 85. Lin.'i. 140. Gm.Lin.i. oil. Mus. Adolp. Fr.ii. 



p. 13. 

 Noble Parrot, Gen.Syn.'i. 207. Shaw's Zool. viii. 401. 



SIZE of a Turtle. Face naked, white ; the body wholly green ; 

 bend of the wing scarlet ; quills and tail green ; the latter wedge- 

 shaped. 



* Pait. mascarinus, Mantiss. 1771. p. 524. 



