THE 
GUINEA PARRAKEET. 
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 
backward and two forward. 
Linnceus and Pennant. 
Specific Character, &c. 
SHORT-TAILED GREEN PARROT, with 
red front; tail fulvous with a black bar; 
orbits of the eyes grey. Lin. 
RED-HEADED GUINEA PARRAKEET. 
Latham, fol. 1. p. 309. 
This beautiful little bird is fo often feen in cages, 
that the circumftance of its not being a rare fpecies 
feems in fome degree to leffen the admiration due to 
its uncommon elegance. As it is fo well known to Na- 
turalifts, it is unneceflary to fay more than that it is 
one of the mod brilliant of its genus, and that the 
beauty of its appearance is equalled by the gent ene ± 
