BLUE-FACED PARROT. 



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tips: the bill pale or whitish, and the legs and 

 feet dusky. 



The Count de BufFon considers this bird as a 

 variety of his Crik h tete bleue^ which is the Blue' 

 Faced Parrot of Edwards ; but Monsr. Levaillant 

 assures us that this is a mistake, and that the 

 present bird is an entirely distinct species. It is 

 a native of South America, and particularly of 

 Brasil. 



BLUE-FACED PARROT. 



4-- Psittacus caerulifrons. P. mridis, facie remigibusque primoribus cce- 

 ruleis, gula maculaque alari rubris, cauda apice Jlavescente, 



Green Parrot, with blue face and larger quill-feathers, red throat 

 and wing-patch, and yellowish-tipped tail. 



Blue-faced Green Parrot. Edw. pi, 230. 



Psittacus autumnalis var. jS. Lath, ind, orn, 



Le Perroquet Bouquet. LevailL pi. 135. 



This is one of those Parrots which were first 

 described by Edwards, and is certainly much 

 allied to the Psittacus Brasiliensis. Its size, ac- 

 cording to Edwards, is that of a small-sized Hen 

 or Pullet: its colour is green, paler beneath, and 

 the edges of the plumage on the wings yellowish : 

 the whole front, to some little distance beyond the 

 eyes, is blue, somewhat inclining to violet: the 

 throat, immediately under the blue of the chin, 

 and to some distance down the breast, red, termi- 

 nating in a pointed manner: the larger quill-fea- 

 thers blue 5 but three or four of the secondaries 



