YELLOW- FACED PARROQUET, 
When Edwards originally figured this bird, 
which was the property of the first ladv of the 
celebrated Sir Robert W alpole, afterwards Earl 
of Orford, he could find no description of any 
species of Parrot which agreed with it, and 
therefore concluded it to be a non-descript. 
He appears, however, to have been mistaken 
in this conclusion : for his Yellow-Faced Par- 
roquet is agreed to be the Tui Aputejubap 
of Marcgrave, and the Tui Secundus, of Ray, 
and of Willughby ; with whose works Edwards 
was well acquainted, though the present obje6l: 
escaped his research. It has, since, been fre- 
quently described: and is, in fa6^, thePsittacu? 
Pertinax, of Linnaeus ; the Psittaca lUiniaca, 
of Biisson ; the Apute Juba, of BulFon ; the 
Perruche Illmoise, or Illinois Parrot, of the 
Planches Enluminees, of Pennant, and of 
Latham ; and the Psittacus Yiridis Malis Cro- 
ceis, of Klein. 
But, though the very indijfFerent figures of 
the earlier authors^ ail of them uncoloured, 
might 
