THE SPLENDID PARROT. 



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featliers, are of a vivid leek-green; the exterior 

 feather of the majores is of a dull brown, as well 

 as the legs and feet ; above the axillae, the black 

 colour of the back forms on each side a transverse 

 spot, with sharpened extremities ; the tail is long 

 and cuneiform towards the tip ; the bill is rather 

 small, not much hooked, and of a pale umber 

 brown. 



The female is much less brilliant in the colour 

 of her plumage than the male. 



This is nearly allied to Pennant's Parrot, plate 

 11 of this work, but differing from it, in the tail 

 being much shorter, and in other particulars men- 

 tioned in the description: they are, however, 

 frequently confoimded. 



