GUINEA SPARROW. 
Bu FFON observes, that this bird, which he 
calls the Red-Headed Parroquet, is known 
to bird-fanciers under the name of the Guinea 
Sparrow : Edwards, and Albin, as well as 
BufFon, give both names, but the two former 
prefix the epithet Little. It is, in fa6l, the 
Psittacus PuUarics, or Ethiopian Parrot, of 
Linnseus ; the Psittacus Pusillus j^^thiopicus, 
of Ray; the Guinea Parroquet, of Brisson; 
and the Red -Headed Guinea Parroquet, of 
Latham. 
Bosman says, that though these Parroquets 
are called Guinea Sparrows, it would not be 
easy to assign the reason, since the Common 
Sparrows are also very abundant on the Gold 
Coast. It may, periiaps, have arisen fi-om 
their being so prodigiously numerous as to in- 
jure the crops of corn, like our Common 
Sparrow : added to the circumstances of being 
nearly as small as that bird; and unable to 
speak, 
