PARADISE PARROT. 



501 



sidered as a farther variety, still maintaining the 

 characteristic mark of the red patch on the middle 

 of the wings, which seems to remain through all 

 the changes of plumage. 



VAR? 8. 



. PARADISE PARROT. 



Psittacus Paradisi, F.Jlavus, marginibus pennarum rubrO'aurantiis, 

 Yellow Parrot, with the feathers edged with orange-red. 

 Psittacus Paradisi ? P. brachi/urus luteus, gula ventre redricum" 



que basi rubris, Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Le Papagai de Paradis. Buff. ois. 

 Perroquet de Cuba. PI. Enl. 336. 

 Paradise Parrot. Lath. syn. 



Perroquet jaune ecaille de rouge. Levaill.pl. 1S7' 



Size of the preceding kinds : colour fine yellow, 

 with the whole plumage edged or scalloped with 

 red: forehead and larger wing-feathers pale grey: 

 on the middle of the wings a red patch: bill white; 

 legs and feet pale brown. The specimen figured 

 in the Planches Enluminees has the whole plumage 

 pretty strongly edged with red: in that represented 

 in the work of Monsr. Levaillant the edging or 

 scalloping is narrower and of a more delicate ap- 

 pearance. 



