PARROT, 273 



228— PASSERINE PARROT. 



Psittacus passerinus, Ind.Orn.ul3S. Lin.i. 150. Mus. Ad. Fr. i. p. 14. Id. li. 



p. 16.. Gm. Lin. i. 342 Bor. Nat. ii. 95. 

 Psitt. Brazil. Uropygio cyaneo, Bris. iv. 384. 7d.8vo.ii. 147. 

 Tuiete, fom. p. 34. ^7/. p. 78. Id. Engl. 116. § IV. No. 6. 

 Le Perroquet nain, Voy. d'Azara. iv. No. 188. 

 Short-tailed yellowish green Parrakeet, Bancr. Guian: 162. 

 Passerine Parrot, Shaw's Zool. viii. 556. 

 Little blue and green Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. i. 319. Edw. pi. 235. 



SIZE of a House-Sparrow ; length four inches. Bill, cere, and 

 orbits orange ; plumage green ; rump and upper tail coverts blue ; 

 lesser wing coverts green, the greater blue ; greater quills green ; 

 beneath the wing chiefly greenish ash-colour ; tail much rounded, 

 the feathers sharp at the ends ; legs orange. 



Inhabits Brazil aud Guiana. Buffon's bird had the quills edged 

 with blue. According to Linnaeus, the quills are blue beneath. 

 It is found in Paraguay in troops of ten or twenty ; is easily tamed ; 

 sometimes makes use of a deserted nest of the Founder,* to rear 

 the young. 



229— BLUE-WINGED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus Capensis, Ind. Orn. i. 132. Gm. Lin.i. 350. 



Perruche a ailes bleues, Buf. vi. 173. 



Petite Perruche du Cap. de B. Esp. PI. enl. 455, 1. 



Cape Parrot, Shaw's Zool. viii. 556. Nat. Misc. xxi. No. S93. 



Blue-winged Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. i. 317. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill reddish; plumage green, 

 except some of the wing feathers, which are blue ; tail even at the 

 end ; legs reddish. 



* Rufous Bee-eater, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 683. 

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