14.
REDBREASTED
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n .
Place.
14.
V a r . A.
ORANGEBREASTED
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n.
Pfittacus hæmatodus, Lin. Maui. 1771. p.524.
La Perruche variée d’Amboine, Brif. orn.vi. p.364. N° 72.
La Perruche à face bleue. Buf. oif. vi. p, 150.
Perruche d’Amboine. PI. enl. 61.
Red-breafted Parrakeet, Edn». glean. t. 232. J JENGTH eleven inches : fize of the common Parrakeet. Bill
yellowilh white: cere yellowilh : feathers round the bill,
taking in half the crown above, and the chin beneath, of a deep
blue ; the reft of the head and neck green * ; behind the laft a
yellow ring : the upper parts of the body are green : fore part of
the neck and breaft of a fine orange red, edged with deep blue:
upper part of the belly deep green; lower ja r t yellow green,
marked with deeper green : edge of the wing yellow : under
wing coverts red: tail four inches and three quarters in length.;
much cuneated; above green; beneath dirty green: legs blackilh.
Inhabits Amboina.
Perruche des Moluques, Buf. oif. vL p. 150,
'T H IS is ten inches long. The bill reddilh white: the whole
head blue, and a fpot of this colour on the belly : it has the
breaft red, mixed with yellow, but not edged with blue: the tails
of this and the laft are as long as the bodies f .
* In the Blanches enluminées the hind head is brown.
Î In the Blanches enluminées the feathers which cover the outfide o f the thighs
are cheftnut, with dulky edges.
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M. ie Buffon fuppofes this and the laft to be varieties only. To
which I mayadd a further one, the next defcribed,"
Blue-bellied Parrot, Brown's Illuftr. p. 14. t. 7,
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. '
THE length of this beautiful Parrot is fifteen inches. The
bill is reddilh: orbits black: head and throat dark blue,
with a mixture of lighter blue feathers: back part of the head
green ; towards the throat yellow green: back and wings green :
prime quills-dulky, barred with yellow: breaft red mixed with
yellow : belly of a fine blue : thighs green and yellow : tail cuneiform;
the two middle feathers green; the others the fame,
but bright yellow on the outer edges : legs dulky.
Inhabits Botany Bay in New: Holland..
VAr'a varie des Moluques, Brif. orn. iv\ p. 197. N° 5V
La grande Perruche a bandeau noir, Buf oif vi. p. 158.
Piitt, orient, exquifit. Loeri di&us, Seha i. p. 63. f. 4. *
Pfitt. capite nigro, collari viridi, Klein. Av, p. 25. N° 1.6. >
A . L IT T L E bigger than the-Amazon’s Parrot: length fourteen
inches, of which the tail is fix inches and three quarters.
The upper part of the-head is black : the neck furrounded with a
collar of green and red: back, rump, fcapulars, wing and tail
coverts, deep .blue: throat, fore part of the neck, and breaft, fine
* Sola's figure has three toes before, and two behind, being five in all; no
doubt, a miftake of the engraver.
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V ar. B.
BLUE-BELLIED
PARROT.
D e s c r i t t io n .
Place;
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BLACKCROWNED
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n .
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