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THE CAROLINA PARROT. 



aji inch and a half, down and round the neck, a rich 

 and pure yellow ; shoulder and bend of the wing, 

 also edged with rich orange red. The general 

 colour of the rest of the plumage is a bright yellowish 

 silky green, with light blue reflections, lightest and 

 most diluted with yellow below ; greater wing 

 coverts and roots of the primaries, yellow, slightly 

 tinged with green ; interior webs of the primaries, 

 deep dusky purple, almost black, exterior ones, bluish 

 green ; tail, long, cuneiform, consisting of twelve 

 feathers, the exterior one only half the length, the 

 others increasing to the middle ones, which are 

 streaked along the middle with light blue ; shafts of 

 all the larger featliers, and of most part of the 

 green plumage, black ; knees and vent, orange 

 yellow ; feet, a pale whitish flesh colour ; claws, 

 black ; bill, white, or slightly tinged with pale 

 cream ; iris of the eye, hazel ; round the eye is a 

 small space without feathers, covered with a whitish 

 skin ; nostrils placed in an elevated membrane at 

 the base of the bill, and covered with feathers ; 

 chin, wholly bare of feathers, but concealed by those 

 descending on each side ; from each side of the 

 palate hangs a lobe or skin of a blackish colour ; 

 tongue, thick and fleshy ; inside of the upper 

 mandible near the point, grooved exactly like a 

 file, that it may hold with more security." 



According to Audubon the plumage is compact 

 and imbricated on the back, blended on the head, 

 neck, and under parts ; the wings are long, the 

 second and third quills longest ; the body is elon- 



