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most likely young birds, if not differing in sex. In one of these 

 with a mixed plumage the tail was wholly yellow ; I have observed 

 one, in which the face inclined to red or orange ; as to Var. B. it must 

 rest on conjecture only, not having seen such a bird. 



55— CAROLINA PARROT. 



Psittacus Carolinensis, Ind. Om. i. 93. Lin. i. 141. Gm. Lin. i. 320. Scop. Ann. i. 



No. 25. Bris. ir. 350. Id. 8to. i. 138. Klein, p. 25. Shaw's Zool. viii. 445. 

 Perriche a tete jaune, Buf. vi. 274. 

 Perroquet, No. 7, Fermin. Surin. ii. 176. 

 Carolina Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 227. Id. Sup. 59. Id. Sup. ii. 84. Gates. Car. i. pi. 2. 



Arct. Zool ii. No. 132. Bartr, Trav. 286. Amer. Orn.iii. pi. 26. 1. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill yellowish white, and with the 

 eyes surrounded by a naked, pale, ash-coloured skin ; irides yellow ; 

 fore part of the head orange, back part, nape, and throat yellow ; 

 lower part of the neck behind, and all the upper and under parts of 

 the body green; edge of the wing, at the bend, orange; wing coverts 

 green, the lesser green beneath, the greater brown ; quills brown 

 within, yellow on the outside at the base, then green, with the tips 

 inclining to blue; the secondaries green above, and all of them brown 

 beneath ; tail greatly cuneiform, green ; legs hoary. 



Inhabits Guiana, migrating into Carolina and Virginia in 

 autumn : is said to feed on corn, and kernels of fruits, particularly 

 those of cypress and apples; comes into Carolina and Georgia in vast 

 flights, doing great damage in orchards, by tearing in pieces the 

 fruits for the sake of the seeds, the only part agreeable to their palate. 

 Have been known to build the nest in Carolina, but the greater part 

 retires south in breeding time, returning when the fruits are ripe. 

 They are called in Georgia the Parrakeet* Bartram observes, that 



* Mr, Abbot. 

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