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PSITTACUS CAROLINEJSTSIS. 
The Carolina, or Illinois parrot, (for it has been 
described under both these appellations,) is thirteen 
inches long, and twenty-one in extent ; forehead and 
cheeks, orange red ; beyond this, for an inch and a half, 
down and round the neck, a rich and pure yellow ; 
shoulder and bend of the wing, also edged with rich 
orange red. The general colour of the rest of the 
plumage is a bright yellowish silky green, with light 
blue reflections, lightest and most diluted with yellow 
below ; greater wing-coverts and roots of the primaries, 
yellow, slightly tinged with green; interior webs of 
thn primaries, deep dusky purple, almost black, exterior 
ones, bluish green ; tail, long, cuneiform, consisting of 
twelve feathers, the exterior one only half the length, 
the others increasing to the middle ones, which are 
streaked along the middle with light blue ; shafts of 
all the larger feathers, and of most part of the green 
plumage, black ; knees and vent, orange yellow ; feet, 
a pale whitish flesh colour; claws, black; bill, white, 
or slightly tinged with pale cream ; iris of the eye, 
hazel; round the eye is a small space without feathers, 
covered with a whitish skin; nostrils placed in an 
elevated membrane at the base of the bill, and covered 
with feathers ; chin, wholly bare of feathers, but con- 
cealed by those descending on each side ; from each 
side of the palate hangs a lobe or skin of a blackish 
colour ; tongue, thick and fleshy ; inside of the upper 
mandible near the point, grooved exactly like a file, 
that it may hold with more security. 
The female differs very little in her colours and 
markings from the male. After examining numerous 
specimens, the following appear to be the principal dif- 
ferences. The yellow on the neck of the female does not 
descend quite so far ; the interior vanes of the primaries 
are brownish, instead of black, and the orange red on 
the bend and edges of the wing is considerably narrower ; 
in other respects, the colours and markings are nearly 
the same. 
The young birds of the preceding year, of both sexes, 
are generally destitute of the yellow on the head and 
