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PASSERINE PARROT. 



|*sittacus passerinus. P. viridis, macula alarum uropygio alisqut 

 sub t as cceruleis. 



Green Parrot, with blue wing-patch and rump, and wings blue 

 beneath. 



Least blue and green Parrakeet. Edw. pL 235. 



Psittacus passerinus. F. brachyurus luteo-virens, macula alarum 



alisque subtus ccerukis. Lyn. Syst. Nat, Lath. ind. orn, 

 Tuiete. Will. orn. Rait syn. 



This is, perhaps, the smallest of the short-tailed 

 Parrots, measuring but little more than four inches 

 in length: colour green, somewhat yellowish be- 

 neath : on the wings a blue patch : rump and upper 

 tail-coverts pale blue : under surface of the wings, 

 according to Edwards, greenish ash-colour, mixed 

 with blue on the smaller coverts; but, according 

 to Linnaeus, blue. Native of Brasil and Guiana. 



VAR.? 

 CAPE PARROT. 



Psittacus Capensis. P. viridis^ alls supra coeruleo mriis, subtus 

 cceruleis, rostro pedibusque rubescentibus. Lath. ind. orn. 



Green Parrot, with the wings varied with blue, and blue beneath, 

 and the bill and legs reddish. 



Perruche a ailes bleues. Buff. ois. 



Petite Perruche de Cap de Bonne Experance. PL EnL 445./. 1. 

 Blue-Winged Parrakeet. Lath. syn. 



Size similar to that of the preceding, of which 

 it is, perhaps, rather a variety than a truly distinct 



