PARROT. 153 



grey brown, with a tinge of yellow; tail green, shorter than the 

 body, and yellowish beneath, in shape cuneiform ; legs ash-colour. 



Inhabits Martinico, and diiferent parts of North America ; if the 

 same with Bancroft's bird, is found in Guiana, but in his, part of 

 the quills was blue. I received one from Jamaica, in which the head 

 is of the same green as the rest of the body, the secondaries next the 

 body, and the inner sides of the prime quills blue, 



A. — Psittacus plumbeus, Gm. Lin. i. 326. 

 Brown-fronted Parrakeet, Gen.Syn.L 243. 41. A, 



Length eleven inches and a half. Bill lead-colour; eye in a skin 

 of the same ; irides hazel ; forehead brown ; crown bluish ; cheeks 

 and chin brownish buff; throat deeper; rest of the body green, paler 

 beneath ; tail cuneiform, more than half the length of the bird, side 

 feathers short, colour as the body, with blue edges and tips ; edges 

 of the quills blue; legs lead-colour. 



Inhabits the Spanish Main, from whence it was brought alive. 



61— LONG-TAILED GREEN PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus rufirostris, Ind. Orn.i. 95. Lin.'i. 142. Gm. Lin.'x. 323. Mus. Ad. Fred. 



ii. p. 13. Gerin.n. 1. 125. 

 Psittaca, Bris. iv. 319. Id. 8vo. ii. 129. 

 Psittacus minor macrour. Rati, p. 33. t. 81. Will. 77. Shane's Jam. 297. Brown's 



Jam. 472. 

 Sincialo, Buf.v'u 265. PI. enl. 550. Levail. Perr.\. 83. pi. 42. Shaw's Zool viii. 441. 

 Tui, Raii, 34. 1. Will. 78. Id. Engl. 116. 

 Long-tailed Green Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. i. 230. Edw. pi. 175. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length twelve inches and a half. Upper 

 mandible blood red, with a black tip, the under black : cere, and 

 bare skin round the eye, flesh-coloured; irides orange; plumage 



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