ALDROVANDINE PARROT. 



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and that the Grand Peroquet verd de la Noiwelk 

 Guinec of Sonnerat is undoubtedly the same with 

 the Green and Red Chinese Parrot of Edwards. 

 Dr. Latham, in his ornithology, has separated 

 Sonnerat's bird from Edwards's, under the name 

 of the New-Guinea Green Parrot. It should seem 

 however from Sbnnerat's description that the 

 specimen observed by himself was of smaller size 

 than that described by Edwards, since he com- 

 pares its magnitude to that of an Amazon Parrot. 

 The figure given by BufFon in the Planches En- 

 luminees is justly censured by Levaillant, but that 

 of Edwards, which was copied from the living 

 bird, is extremely good. 



ALDROVANDINE PARROT. 



Psittacus poikilorynchos. P. mridis, vertice flwoOy macula alari 



rubra f 7^ostro vario. 

 Green Parrot, with yellow crown, red wing-spot, and variegated 



bill. 



Psittacus poikilorynchos. Aldr. orn. 

 Psittacus Amazonicus? Lyn. Syst. Nat, 

 Yellow-Headed Amazons Parrot. Lath, syn. 



This species, if such it really be (for it is gene- 

 rally considered as a large variety of the Amazon 

 Parrot), seems unknown to modern ornithologists, 

 and rests entirely on the faith of Aldrgvandus, by 

 whom it was first described. 



It may certainly, says Aldroyandus, be con- 

 sidered as the chief of the middle-sized Parrots, 

 being not mSpviqv to a Hen in §i;ze, and ^^^asurfng 



