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AUTUMNAL PARROT. 



are red towards their base, thus forming a redl 

 patch on the wings : the tail is green, the feathers 

 tinged with red at the base, and pretty deeply 

 edged with yellowish or apple-green : the bill 

 dusky ash-colour, the middle part of the upper 

 mandible inclining to orange : the orbits bare and 

 flesh-coloured, and the legs and feet of the same 

 hue. Native, according to BufFon, of Guiana* 

 A supposed variety of this bird is mentioned by 

 Dr. Latham (from BufFon,) which differs in having 

 the head varied with red and dull white. 



AUTUMNAL PARROT. 



Psittacus autumnalis. P. hrachyurus mridisy fronte remigumqm 

 macula coccinea, vertice remigibusque primoribus cceruleis. Ltn» 

 Syst. Nat. 



Green Parrot, with red front and wing-patch, orange cheeks^ 



and blue crown and quill-feathers. 

 Autumnal Parrot, var. B. Blue-Faced Parrot. Lath, 

 Lesser Green Parrot. Edw.pl.l64, 

 Le Perroqijet a joues orange. Levaill. pi. Ill, 



First described by Edwards, and allied to the 

 Blue-Faced and Blue-Cheeked Parrots, but smaller 

 than either, being, according to Edwards, of the 

 size of a middling Pigeon. Its colour is dark 

 gteen above, paler or inclining to apple-green 

 beneath ; the thighs and vent-feathers pale yellow- 

 green; the forehead red, the top of the head blue, 

 and the cheeks orange, fading into yellow as H 

 joins the plumage on the sides of the neck: the 



