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skins of this bird sent to a Plumassier at Paris for 

 the purpose of ornamenting dresses, &c. 



ILLINOIS PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus pertinax. P. macr. viridis, gents fulvis, remigibus rectri" 

 cibusguc canescentihus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



Green Parrakeet, with fulvous cheeks, and greyish quill and tail- 

 feathers. 



Illinois Parrot. Lath. syn. 



Yellow-faced Parrakeet. Ediv.pL 234. 



Size similar to that of the Caroline Parrakeet ; 

 from which it has been sometimes considered as 

 differing merely in sex : forehead, cheeks, and 

 whole head bright orange-colour, but the crown 

 generally green : upper parts of the body, wings, 

 and tail green : larger quill- feathers green, edged 

 with blue : breast and belly yellowish-green, vent 

 yellow : bill pale 5 legs deep ash-colour. Native 

 of the Brasils, and other parts of South America, 

 as well as of the interior parts of North America, 

 as in the country of the Illinois, south of the Lake 

 Mic^igam, and in its manners resembling the 

 Caroline Parrakeet. 



Mr. Pennant, who describes this bird in his 

 Arctic Zoology, observes that the Count de Buffon 

 confines the whole Parrot genus to exactly twenty- 

 five degrees on each side the Equator; but that this 

 limit is unquestionably by far too contracted. In 

 his Index to the Planches Enlumin6es, Mr. Pen- 

 nant is somewhat more pointed in his observations, 



