PARROT. 



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orange ; plumage in general green, inclining to yellow beneath ; 

 forehead, cheeks, and throat fine orange ; crown of the head deep 

 green, mixed with yellow towards the hindhead ; fore part of the 

 neck cinereous green ; on the belly a few orange spots ; quills blue- 

 green within, and the shafts blackish, the five next the body full 

 green ; tail much cuneated, green, some of the outer feathers with 

 cinereous margins, and others with yellowish ones ; the exterior 

 shorter by one inch and three quarters ; legs deep ash. 



Inhabits Brazil, Guiana, Cayenne, &c. where it is called Wood- 

 Louse* Parrot, from its feeding on, and making the nest in the 

 habitations of those insects, remaining the whole year at Guiana, but 

 migrates from other parts, far northward, being very common on the 

 banks of the Ohio, and the south shore of Lake Erie. Sometimes in 

 the number of 500 in a flock, and living, among other things, on 

 chestnuts, acorns, and wild peas; are very clamorous, and on the 

 approach of any person, set up a horrible outcry all together. The 

 flesh is accounted savoury by the French and Indians, who make it 

 into soup. 



That figured in pi. enlum. is green above, and yellow beneath ; 

 forehead and cheeks yellow, inclining to orange; no doubt either 

 taken from a bird in higher plumage, or differing in sex. 



The Carolina and Illinois Parrot are by many supposed to be one 

 and the same species, but differing merely from age or progress to 

 maturity ; the female varies but little from the male, the yellow on the 

 neck not descending so far down, and in her the vanes of the prime 

 quills are brownish, instead of black , and the orange red on the 

 head, and edges of the wing much narrower. 



* This insect belongs to the Genus Termes of Linnaeus ; called by the English in the 

 West Indies, White, or Wood Ant: and in Africa, Vagvague, or Bugabug — the devasta- 

 tion of which is too well known in the parts which they frequent. See Adans. Voy. to Sene%. 

 Svo. 153, 179.— Bosnian's Guinea, 270, 493. — Shane's Jamaica, ii. 221. &c. — Also a curious 

 memoir on the subject by Mr. Smeathman — Phil. Trans. V.lxxi. p. 139. 



