YELLOW-BREASTED PARROT. $4el 



male, green; but the larger quill-feathers deep 

 blue on the* outer edges, and blackish within : 

 vent, and tail-feathers to some distance from the 

 base red: bill ash-coloured, with a reddish or 

 orange-coloured spot on each side the upper man- 

 dible: legs blackish. Native of Cayenne, where 

 it is common. The Little Dusky Parrot of Ed- 

 wards, (Psittacus purpureus Lath,) is supposed 

 by Levaillant to be the female, which appears to 

 vary much in colour according to its more or less 

 advanced age. That represented by Levaillant 

 being brown, with a strong cast of violet-blue on 

 the wings and under parts; the face blackish, and 

 the head varied with ash-colour: the vent and 

 base of the tail red, as in Edwards's bird. 



YELLOW-BREASTED PARROT. 



Psittacus Guineensis. P. viridis, vertice collo apiceque caudce ru"^ 

 bris, peciore super ciliisquejtavis, genis gula abdomineque albis. 



Green Parrot, with red crown, neck, and tail-tip, yellow brows 

 and breast, and white cheeks, tliroat, and belly. 



Psittacus Guineensis. Miller III. pL 29. 



Yellow-Breasted Lory. Lath, syn. 



Size of the preceding species: belly cinereous 

 white: quill-feathers blue with yellowish edges: 

 bill black; legs brown. Said to be a native of 

 Guinea. 



