142 PARROT. 



46— YELLOW-HEADED PARROT. 



Faittac. Jendaya, Ind. Orn. i. 98. Gm. Lin. i. 319. 



Psitt. braziliensis lutea, Bris. it. 392. Id. 8vo. ii. 152. 



Jendaya, Rail. 34. Will. 78. Id. Engl. 116. Buf. ri. 262. SW* Zoo/, Viii. 451. 



Yellow-headed Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 224. 



SIZE of a Blackbird. Bill black ; orbits naked, white ; irides 

 gold colour ; plumage green above, yellow beneath ; head and neck 

 yellow ; bottom of the belly green ; legs black. 



Inhabits Brazil, and called Jendaya. — Brisson has ranked this 

 among his short-tailed Parrots ; and Buffon with those having long 

 ones ; it is, therefore, uncertain ; as Marcgrave, from whom the 

 description is copied, does not mention the circumstance. 



47— ANGOLA YELLOW PARROT. 



Psittac. solstitialis, Ind. Orn. i. 92. Lin. i. 141. Gm. Lin. i. 320. Shaw's Zool. viii. 



448. pi. 65. 

 Psittacus aurantius, T. F. Miller, ill. t. 5. 

 ■ croceus, Klein, av. p. 25. 



— — — luteus cauda longa, Frisch. t. 53. 

 Psittaca angolensis lutea, Bra, iv. 371. Id. 8ro. ii. 144. 

 Perruche jaune, Buf. vi. 147. 

 Angola Yellow Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 224. Alb. iii. pi. 13. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill greenish ash-colour ; eyes and 

 base of the bill surrounded with a pale skin ; irides dull yellow ; 

 general plumage orange yellow ; back and wing coverts marked 

 with yellow green spots ; rump and upper tail coverts yellow green ; 

 sides and thighs red ; wing coverts nearest the body yellowish 

 green, with orange yellow edges ; those farthest from the body blue ; 

 greater quills blue without, and yellowish green within ; the lesser 



