PARROT. 195 



the tips of the feathers greenish yellow ; legs lead-colour. 



Inhabits several of the Islands of the South Seas. The specimen 

 above described said to have come from Otaheite. 



120 —AGILE PARROT. 



Psittacus agilis, Tnd. Orn. 1. 106. Lin. i. 143. Gm. Lin. i. 330. Borowsk. ii. 92. 



Psittacus Cayanensis, Bris. vi. 237. Id. 8vo. ii. 109. 



Little Green Parrot, Edw. pi. 16S. 



Aurora Parrot, Shaw's Zool. viii. 508 — the young bird. 



Agile Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 297. 



LENGTH ten inches and a half.* Bill ash-colour; irides dark 

 hazel ; round the eye bare, and ash-coloured ; the plumage in general 

 dark green, lighter beneath ; quills blue, the inner webs and tips 

 black ; one of the greater wing coverts red, falling over the quills ; 

 tail slightly cuneiform, the two middle feathers green, the three next 

 on each side red for three-fourths of the length, the ends green ; the 

 two outer ones marked the same with red, but only on the inner 

 webs, the outer bluish, all beneath green ; legs ash-colour. 



Inhabits Cayenne and other parts of South America, and is one of 

 those known by the name of Criq. 



A.— Le Petit Perroquet, Levail. pi. 105. 

 Red-bar Parrot, Shaw's Zool. viii. 510. 



Size of the Agile Parrot. Bill dull grey; plumage above fine 

 green, beneath yellowish green, with a bluish tinge on the back and 

 shoulders; lowest order of wing coverts scarlet; the larger quills 

 dusky, edged outwardly with blue ; tail green, all but the two middle 



* Edwards's figure is eight inches and a half. Brisson's two inches more. Linnceus calls 

 it the size of a Hawfinch. 



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