GREEN AND RED CHINESE 
PARROT. 
I J. HIS very grand and beautiful bird Is the 
IPsittacus Sinensis of Linn^us, the Green Par- 
rot of Buffon, the.^ Great Green Parrot of 
Sonnerat, and the Green and Red Chinese 
Parrot 8£ Edwards and Latharrt. It is, as 
Edwards observes, one of the largest species 
of Parrots, being the size of a middling hen. 
The upper mandible of the bill is red at it's 
base, and inclining to yellowish at it's point; 
\Vhich is pretty much hooked, and has an 
angle on each side: the lower mandible is 
black. The nostrils are placed between the 
feathers of the head and the base of the bill ; 
it having no skin, or cere, over the base, as is 
common" in most of the Parrot kind. It is 
also singular, in having the feathers continued 
close. to the eyes; Parrots, generally, having 
a space of skin devoid of feathers round their 
eyes. The circles round the eyes are of a 
bright orange colour. The head, neck, back, 
covert-feathers of the wings, breast, belly, and 
tipper side of the tail, are all of a fine full 
green. The sides, under the wings, and the 
inner covert-feathers of the winp^s, arc red : 
which 
