630 GREAT-BILLED PARROT. 



imitates with great readiness and exactness any 

 tune which it hears, as well as the barking of 

 dogs, mewing of cats, &c. &c. in the manner of 

 the Mocking-Bird. It is a native of the island of 

 Madagascar. 



GREAT-BILLED PARROT. 



Psittacus macrorynchos. P. mtidis, dorso alisque cmrulescentihus^ 



tectricibus nigris luteo marginatis. 

 Green Parrot, with blueish back and wings, with black coverts' 



edged with orange-colour. 

 Psittacus macrorynchos. Great-Billed Parrot. Lath. 

 Perroquet a bee couleur de sang. B'uff^. ois. Levaill. pi, 83. 

 Perroquet de la Nouvelle Guinee. PL EnL 713. 



Length from twelve or thirteen to fifteen 

 inches: colour fine green, with a blueish cast 

 on the upper part of the neck and back, and a 

 still stronger one on the wings: the smaller wing- 

 coverts are black, beautifully edged with pale 

 orange, the lowest row or those nearest the larger 

 coverts being of a green colour, with paler edges 

 inclining to yellow: the larger quill-feathers are 

 of a greenish blue on their outsides, but blackish 

 at their tips and on the inner webs : the bill very 

 large, and of a bright red; the legs dusky. Na- 

 tive of New Guinea, and is considered as a rare 

 species. Monsr. Levaillant justly observes that 

 the figure given in the Planches Enluminees was 

 copied from an ill-prepared specimen. Both the 

 head and bill in that figure are indeed represented 

 beyond their true proportions. 



