T HE 



SPLENDID PARROT. 



Generic Character. 



Bill hooked. Upper mandible moveable. 

 No/Irils round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 

 Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. 

 Legs fhort; Toes formed for climbing, viz. two 

 forward and two backward. 



Specieic Chara c ter, &C. 



LONG -TAILED SANGUINE - RED PAR- 

 ROT, with the back fpotted with black, 

 the wings and tail bright-blue. 



PE N NAN TI AN PARROT. 



Latham's Synopf. Suppl. p. 6l. 



This beautiful bird exceeds moft of its genus in the 

 fplendor of its colors. It ranks amongft the Pfittaci 

 Macrouri, or Long-tailed Parrots. Its general color 

 is a vivid fanguine-red, fomewhat paler on the lower 

 part of the body ; and the feathers on the back are 

 black, margined with red. The moulder-feathers, or 

 fmaller coverts, are of a molt, brilliant blue : towards 

 the middle part of the wing the blue becomes much 

 deeper, and flightly tinged with green. Above the 

 ■axillie the black color of the back forms on each fide a 



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