148 PARROT. 



they never reach so far north as Pensylvania, which is singular, being 

 a bird of very rapid flight, and could easily perform the journey in 

 TO or 12 hours from North Carolina, which abounds in all sorts of 

 the fruits they delight in.* Is easily made tame, if taken by means of 

 the wing being broken, or any other accident, which does not 

 affect its life. 



A. — Psittacus Ludovicianus, Gm. Lin.'i. 347. 



— — — — — — — viridis capite luteo, fronte rubra, Frisch. t. 52. Klein, p. 25. 14. Gerin. 



ii. t. 121. 

 Papegai a tete aurore, Buf. vi. 247. Du Pratz. Voy.'u. 128. 

 Perruclie de la Caroline, PI. enl. 499. 

 Orange-headed Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 304. 



The plumage in this is said to be sea-green, but the head covered 

 with yellow, which grows red towards the bill, and mixes, by 

 degrees, with the green on the sides of the body. This is all the 

 description given by Du Pratz, who relates much the same manners 

 as have been mentioned in respect to the foregoing, and of which we 

 suspect it to be a mere variety. 



56— ILLINOIS PARROT. 



Psittacus pertinax, Ltd. Orn. i. 94. Lin.'i. 149. Mus. Ad. Fred.'i. p. 14. Gm. Lin.'i. 



322. Bor. Nat. ii. 94. Spalowsck. Vog.'u. t.9. 

 Psittacus viridis malis croceis, Klein. Av. 25. Frisch. t. 54. 

 Psittica Illiniaca, Bris.'iv. 353. Id. 8vo.ii. 138. 

 Tiii Aputejuba, Rati, 34. Id. 181. Will. 78. Id. Engl. 116. §. iv. Buf. vi. 369. 



pi. 13. PL enl. 528. 

 Perruclie a front jaune, Levail. Perr.'i. 70. pi. 34. 35. 36. 37. 

 Yellow-faced Parrot, Edw. pi. 234. 

 Illinois Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 228. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 133. Shaw's Zool. viii. 445. 



Length nine inches and a half. Bill pale ash-colour ; eyes and 

 upper mandible placed in a naked, ash-coloured skin ; hides deep 



* Bartr. Trav. 



