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VAR? 9. 

 AURORA PARROT. 



Psittacus Aurora. P. Jiuvus, margine humerali macuhque alari 

 rubris. 



Yellow Parrotj with the edges of the shoulders red, and a red 



patch on the wings. 

 Psittacus Aurora. P.Jlavus, axillis laterihusque extimis alarum 



caudceque rubris. Lath, ind, om, 

 Psittacus Aurora. P. Jiavm, alarun^ marginibus, remigibusquc 

 ,^ majoribus extrorsum in medio rubris. Lin, Mantiss* 177l« 

 L*Amazone jaune. Buff,ois, Levaill, pi. gO. 

 Le Perroquet jaune. PI, Enl. 13. 

 Aurora Parrot. Lath, syn. 



Size of the former kinds : colour fine yellow, the 

 shoulders slightly speckled or tinged with red, and 

 a red wing-patch as in the rest of the tribe: tail 

 slightly tinged with red on the under edge of some 

 of the feathers: tips of the wings whitish: bill and 

 legs pale flesh-colour. In a specimen figured in 

 the work of Monsr. Levaillant the forehead is of a 

 pale blueish ash-colour, the middle of the wing 

 red, and the edges of the larger quill-feathers 

 greyish ; the legs and feet pale grey. According 

 to Monsr. Levaillant this bird is no other than the 

 Amazon Parrot in a state of extreme old age, the 

 yellow in these birds increasing more and more as 

 the age of the bird advances. 



After having thus enumerated the principal va- 

 rieties of the Amazon Parrot, I shall add a curious 



