154 PARROT. 



yellow green ; edges of the quills yellowish ; the two middle tail 

 feathers longer than the outer by five inches, and plain green; legs 

 flesh-colour. 



Inhabits various parts of America. 



A.— Psittacus Guianensis, Gm. Lie.i. 323. 



Psitt. Aquar. Lupiar. Insula;, Bris. iv. 330. Id. 8vo. ii. 132. Shaw's Zool. viii. 442. var. 



Ajuru-cotinga, Raii, p.33. Will.76. Id. Engl. 115. 116. II. 



Green Parrot of Guiana, Gen. Si/nA. 231. Bancr. Gvian. 161. 



Bill flesh-coloured ; irides reddish ; near the pupil ash-coloured ; 

 the eye in an ash-coloured skin, a line in breadth ; whole plumage 

 green, in a variety of shades ; tail cuneiform ; legs whitish. 



Inhabits Brazil and Guadaloupe. Bancroft observes, that it is 

 the most numerous of all the Parrakeets in Guiana ; also found in 

 Terra Firma, and some of the Caribbee Islands; that the tail feathers 

 are blue at the points. It is called Sincialo at St. Domingo, and 

 noisy in its natural state, but readily learns to talk, whistle, and 

 imitate the voices of animals ; fly in troops, but when settled on a 

 tree, fully clothed with leaves, are not easily distinguished ; are lively 

 birds, and easily tamed ; in their native haunts are accounted good 

 food, being at times very fat, and not unsavoury. 



62 — JAGUILMA PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus Jaguilma, Ind. Orn. i. 96. Gm. Lin.'u 324. Molin.Chil.22d. Id. Fr. Ed. 



237. 

 Jaguilma Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 85. Shaio's Zool. viii. 442, 



SIZE of a Turtle. Plumage wholly green, but the tips of the 

 quills are brown; orbits fulvous; tail cuneiform, very long. 



