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AMAZONS PARROT. 
geners, by the common appellation of Green Parrot. 
In dimensions it is inferior to the Festive Parrot, its 
length seldom exceeding twelve inches : the bill is 
less powerful, but similar in form, its colour orange- 
yellow, with a whitish tip. The cheeks, chin, and 
angles at the base of the bill are yellow ; the fore- 
head and eye-streak violet-purple, the bases of the 
feathers being yellow : the occiput and hind-neck 
are green, each feather edged with black. The rest 
of the upper and under plumage is of a fine green. 
The four lateral tail-feathers nearest the two middle 
ones have their outer webs green, verging to yel- 
low at the base and apex ; the inner webs yellow, 
with a large central red spot, intersected by a trans- 
verse green one : the fifth and sixth have the basal 
half of the outer webs green, the remainder yellow ; 
the inner webs with their bases and tips yellow, the 
middle part being green : the next is distinguished 
by a pale red spot ; and the remainder have their 
bases green, which passes into yellow near the tips. 
The margin of the carpus or lower ridge of the 
wing is frequently of an orange-red. The first pri- 
mary quill is black above : beneath, the inner web ex- 
hibits at the base a rich tinge of verdigris-green, the 
second, third, and fourth, have their exterior webs 
green, with azure reflections ; the fifth, sixth, seventh, 
and eighth, are green from the base to the middle, 
the other part being deep azure blue, the inner webs 
black ; the ninth to the twelfth greenish near the 
base, passing forwards into brownish-red, which, 
