THE 
GROUND PARROT. 
Generic Character. 
i?///hooked: upper mandible moveable. 
Nojirils round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 
T’ongue flellry, broad, blunt at the end. 
Feet fcanforial. 
Specific Character, &c. 
LONG-TAILED GREEN PARROT, fpotted 
with black and yellow ; the frontled red; 
the tail yellow with numerous black bars. 
Fhe bind claws are long and JiraitiJlo. 
The GROUND PARROT. 
Miffeum Lcveriamm, No. 5. pi. 
Zool. of Nezn) Hollwd, p. g, pi. 3. 
The bird reprefented on the prefent plate is one 
of the mofl: beautiful of its tribe: its fize is equal 
to that of a turtle: it is called the ground parrot, 
from its rarely perching on trees, but being gene¬ 
rally feen on the ground, efpecially in fedgy and 
rufliy places, running along in the manner of a rail. 
It is a native of Auftralafia. 
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