BLUE-HEADED PARROT. * 
tail quills are green, with blue tips, the three 
outermost, on each side, having blue outer 
webs, and the inner webs being blood-red 
from the base to the middle. The ventlet is 
red, it's feathers having yellowish blue tips. 
The bill is horn-coloured, the sides of the 
upper mandible being tawny. The orbits are 
blueish hoary, and the eyes are black." 
We suspe61: that, in the different accounts, 
different species may have been confounded. 
There are many birds of the Parrot kind, which 
have Blue Heads, as well as other similitudes to 
the Blue-Headed Parrot of Edwards; but we can 
rely, with the fullest confidence, that Edwards 
has delineated only what he beheld, and related 
only what he knew. 
