PARROT. 155 



Inhabits Chili 3 in South America ; most frequent in the plains 

 between 34 and 35 degrees of latitude ; is very clamorous, and often 

 flies in such large flocks as to obscure the light of the sun ; making 

 great havock in the cultivated lands, feeding on the buds of trees and 

 herbs; happily, their arrival is rarely till after harvest, for they will 

 often tear up the plants with the bill quite to the roots. Multitudes 

 are destroyed every year by the peasants on horseback, having a 

 pole in their hands, when riding among a flock, settled on the ground, 

 they knock down great numbers of the birds before they are able to 

 escape ; the flesh is delicate, and preferred to every other. 



63— PAVOUANE PARROT. 



Psittacus Guianensis, Ind. Orn. i. 96. Gm. Lin. i. 324. Bris. iv. 331. t. 28. 1. Id. 



8vo. ii. 133. 

 La Perriche Pavouane, Buf. vi. 255. PI. enl. 407. young. 167. adult. 

 Perruche Ara, Pavouane, Levail. Perr. i. 35. pi. 14. 15. 

 Le Maracana vert, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No, 275. 276. 

 Pavouane Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 232. Skaiv's Zool. viii. 402. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill whitish; round the eye bare, 

 white ; irides fiery red ; plumage deep green, paler beneath ; cheeks 

 spotted with red ; edge of the wing, and under lesser coverts scarlet, 

 the adjoining fine yellow; quills like the back, beneath dull yellow, 

 margins near the tips blackish; shafts of all of them, except the 

 three next the body, black ; tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers 

 six inches and a quarter long, the outer only three and a quarter ; 

 legs grey. 



Inhabits Guiana, as far as 25 degrees of latitude, but more 

 plentiful towards the north ; often seen in great flocks, making a 

 stunning noise. The young bird differs, in not having the sides of 



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