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elegant blue : the feathers of the belly were nearly 

 of the same colour, but with dusky clouds or va- 

 riegations: the back and tail green, and the larger 

 quill-feathers blueish. 



Edwards describes this bird as of the size of a 

 small Pigeon, with the bill, cere, and orbits black- 

 ish; the irides deep yellow or hazel ; the head and 

 throat brown, ^ach feather marked by a longi- 

 tudinal pale stripe: the neck, breast, and belly 

 purple, the feathers edged with blue; the back, 

 rump, scapulars, upper part of the wings, and tail 

 fine green; the greater wing-feathers and the 

 side-feathers of the tail dark blue towards the tips ; 

 the legs dark lead-colour. He adds, that the bird, 

 when provoked, sets up the neck-feathers in the 

 manner of a ruff. 



The bird described by BufFon under the name 

 of Papegai maille is no other than a variety, differ- 

 ing in the brighter colour of the neck-feathers, 

 which are rather purple-ferruginous than brown^ 

 but edged with blue as in the former. It is said 

 to have been originally brought from India, but 

 to have become in a manner naturalized in Guiana,^ 

 where it is at present found. 



It is possible that the Psittacus coronatus of 

 Linnaeus may in reality be no other than the pre- 

 sent species; the slight differences in the colour 

 of the forehead, &c. in the different descriptions 

 are not such as to have much weight. In the 

 Natural History of Guiana it is termed a Cocka^ 

 too; and as the author of that work never pre- 

 tended to give a deeply scientific description of the 



