WHITE-FRONTED PARROT. 519 



Bkin, the irides hazel, and the legs dusky. Native 

 of St. Domingo, where it is common, but said to 

 occur also in Jamaica, &c. 



The variations exhibited by this bird, (at least 

 in the full-grown male,) are rarely such as to pre- 

 vent the ready determination of the species ; the 

 bill being constant in its colour, and the white 

 front pretty conspicuous. In some the edges of 

 the shoulders are white, in some reddish, but in 

 the major part green: the red on the throat is 

 sometimes confined to a small space, and that on 

 the belly is in some specimens of a brownish cast, 

 .Monsr. Levaillant also mentions some specimens 

 which had their green plumage varied or scolloped 

 with red. In the female, according to Levaillant^ 

 the plumage is of a more dusky green than in the 

 male, and the front is red instead of white: there 

 is also no appearance of red either on the throat, 

 the abdomen, or beneath the tail. The female 

 has been erroneously described by Buffbn as an 

 entirely different species, under the title of Pa- 

 pegai a batickau rouge. The young of both sexes, 

 at first leaving the nest, are entirely similar to 

 each other ; but after the first moulting the male 

 exhibits the white front as well as a red spot on 

 die throat, and beneath the tail-feathers; but the 

 'female at that period is entirely green, except on 

 the edges of the quill-feathers, which are blue. 

 The young male, after its moulting, is the Psit- 

 ■tacus alhifrons or fVhite'Crowned Parrot of Dr. 

 Latham, who has introduced it into his Ornitho- 

 logy on the faith of Sparmann's description given 



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