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SOLSTITIAL PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus solstitialis. P. macr. luteus, alarum tedricibus mridibiis^ 

 orbitis ruhris, rectricibus lateralibus extus coBruleis, Lin, Syst, 

 Nat. 



Luteous Parrakeet, with green wing-coverts, red orbits, and tail- 

 feathers edged outwardly with blue. 

 Angola Yellow Parrot, and Brasilian Yellow Parrot. Lath. syn. 

 Psittacus aurantius. Miller III. pi. 5. 

 Perruche jaune, et Perruche Guarouba. Buff. ois. 

 Perruche jaune de Cayenne. Fl. Enl. 525. 



Somewhat smaller than the common Parrakeet i 

 length about thirteen inches : colour fine yellow, 

 more or less clouded in different specimens with 

 bright orange colour : wing-coverts slightly varied 

 with green ; larger quill-feathers blue, some of 

 them edged and tipped with yellow-green: tail 

 apple-green, with blue tips : orbits of the eyes bare 

 and flesh-coloured : bill dusky ; legs flesh-colour. 



There can be no_ doubt that the bird figured in 

 the Planches Enluminees, No. 525, under the title 

 of Perruche jaune de Cayenne, represents the pre- 

 sent species, but in a young state, as Monsr. Le- 

 vaillant observes. If collated with the figure in 

 Miller's miscellaneous plates of Natural History, it 

 will be found to differ merely in being of a some- 

 what paler yellow, or with less of the orange cast, | 

 and with the tail somewhat shorter in proportion. } 

 Native of Brasil, and not, as formerly supposed, of ( 

 Angola in Afi'ica. | 

 The female is rather smaller, according to Monsr. 



