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GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bil] hooked. Upper mandible moveable. 
No/iri/s round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 
Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. | 
Legs fhort. ‘Toes formed for climbing; viz. two toes 
forward, and two backward. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Long-tailed green Parrot, {potted with black and yellow; 
the frontlet red; the tail yellow with numerous black 
bars. 
THE GROUND PARROT. 
Mufeum Leverianum, p. 219. pl. 53. 
THE very elegant figure of this bird in the sth 
Number of the Mufeum Leverianum, reprefenting it in 
a pofture in which fome of its marks are lefs ftrikingly 
conf{picuous, we have endeavoured in the prefent plate 
to exhibit its peculiar characters to the greateft advantage 
by a more expanded attitude of the wings and tail. With 
refpect to its manners we can only repeat what has been 
