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brated Monsr. Levaillant in the arrangement of 

 these bh'ds, and to consider as the genuine repre- 

 sentative of the species the kind which he has 

 himself described under the name of U Amazone, 

 From a collation of six specimens, killed in 

 their native woods, it appears that the Amazon 

 Parrot has the front girt immediately above the 

 bill by a blue band passing from eye to eye ; and 

 immediately above this are a few white feathers, 

 forming a slight transverse white bar above the 

 blue one, but not extending to each eye like the 

 former: the remainder of the front, to some little 

 distance beyond the eyes, is of a jonquil yellow, 

 as are also the chin and the throat : the remainder 

 of the plumage is of a bright and beautiful green, 

 deepest on the back and wings, and lighter beneath, 

 where it has a slight inclination to a blueish or 

 glaucous colour on the breast, and to yellowish on 

 the abdomen ; and round the bottom of the thighs 

 this latter colour forms a yellowish garter: the 

 smallest of the wing-coverts, forming the ridge of 

 the shoulders, for about the length of two inches 

 and the breadth of half an inch, are of a bright 

 and beautiful red : the larger wing or quill-feathers 

 are externally of a deep blue with a cast of violet ; 

 the middle ones of the same colour at their tips, 

 but red on their outward edges, thus forming a 

 lengthened red band on the middle of the wings, 

 but which often becomes nearly imperceptible 

 when the wings are completely closed: the tail is 

 deep green above, and yellowish beneath, and has 

 some red on the upper part of each feather, which 



