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PARROT VINAGO. 



rest is of a red colour, as are the claws : the eyes 

 are orange. The female is rather less than the 

 male : she is known by not having the belly of a 

 bright yellow, but from that part being of an 

 uniform olive-green colour : the rest of the plumage 

 is also less vivid : the young male greatly resembles 

 the female. 



This bird inhabits the low parts of Abyssiaia, 

 and other parts of Africa : perching on the highest 

 trees, remaining quiet during the heat of the day : 

 it flies high and in immense flocks : at the com- 

 mencement of the rains it migrates in vast numbers 

 towards the middle parts of Africa. Mr. Bruce 

 observes that it is amazingly fat, and that the 

 flesh is excellent, but that the Abyssinians will 

 not touch it : Le Vaillant asserts that it builds 

 upon the highest trees in woods, and that the 

 female lays four eggs of a whitish yellow and dun, 

 and that it lives with its mate : it feeds upon fruits, 

 and is partial to a kind of beech tree, upon the 

 mast of which it principally subsists. 



PARROT VINAGO. 



(Vinago Psittacea.) 



Vi. viridis, crisso Jusco, rectricibus duabus intermediis viridibus, 

 reliqids cinereis apice albis, inter quos colores teniaque transversa 

 nigrdf remigibus pennisque secundariis nigris ad apicem mar- 

 gine Jlavis, 



