THE 
SPLENDID PARROT. 
Generic Character. 
Bill hooked. Upper mandible moveable. 
Nojlrils-round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 
Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. 
Legs fhort. Toes formed for climbing, viz. two 
forward and two backward. 
Specific Character, (Sc. 
LONG-TAILED SANGUINE-RED PAR¬ 
ROT, with the back fpotted with black, 
the wings and tail bright-blue. 
PENNANTIAN PARROT. 
Lathams Synopf. Suppl. p. 61. 
This beautiful bird exceeds molt of its genus in the 
fplendor of its colors. It ranks amongft the Pfittaci 
Macrouri, or Long-tailed Parrots. Its general color 
is a vivid fanguine-red, fomewhat paler on the lower 
part of the body ; and the feathers on the back are 
black, margined with red. The fhoulder-feathers, or 
fmaller coverts, are of a molt brilliant blue: towards 
the middle part of the wing the blue becomes much 
deeper, and flightly tinged with green. Above the 
axillae the black color of the back forms on each fide a 
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