GOLDEN-CPvOWNED PARROQUET. 
of a reddish fiesh-coiour, shaped and disposed 
as in others of this tribe. The claws are dusky. 
This bird," adds Edwards, meaning the 
individual here figured, when living, be- 
longed to a young lady, daughter of the late 
Dr. Jurin, wlio died President of the College 
of Physici?ns, London, A. D. 1750. I was 
informed, that it was brought to London from 
Lisbon, and was supposed to be a native of 
Brasil. It lived in England fourteen years. 
During the first three or four years after it's ar- 
rival, it laid five or six small white eggs, which 
proves it to be a Hen bird: and, I think, it 
may possibly be the Hen of the last described, 
for their similitude is very remarkable." 
This last described bird is the Yellow-Faced 
Parroquet, or Psittacus Pertinax of Linnaeus : 
but the conje^Lure of Edwards, respe6ling their 
sexual distinftions, seems to be unsupported. 
Buffon, in describing the Golden-Crowned 
Parroquet, adverts to this circumstance. His 
account is as follows — "This name," says he, 
" w^as bestowed by Edwards, who took the 
bird for a Female of the preceding species. 
What hedesci ibed, was really a Female ; since 
it 
