2 6 .
YELLOW.
HEADED
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n .
P l a c e .
27-
ANGOLA
YELLOW
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n .
La petitePerruche jaune des Brefil, firif crn. iv. p. 399. N 91.
Le Jendaya, Buf oif. vi. p. 262.
Jendaya, Rail Syr., p. 34. N° 5.
----------- Will. urn. p. 116. feft. +. N° 5.
C IZ E of a Blackbird. Bill black: orbits naked, white : irides
® gold-colour: colour of the plumage green above, yellow beneath
: bottom of the belly green : head and neck yellow : legs
and claws black.
Inhabits Brafil, and called Jendaya. M. de Buffon has ventured
to place this among the long-tailed fpecies, though Briffon has
ranked it with the Ihort-tailed ones: in fa£t, neither of them
knows for certain, as they are both copyifts of Marcgrave, who
does not mention the fhape of the tail.
£fittacus folftitialis, Lin. Syf. i. p. 141* N° 12.
La Perruche jaune d’Angole, Brif. orn. iv. p. 3.71. 'N® 76s
Le Perruche jaune, Buf.oif.vi. p. 147*
Langfchwantziger gelber papagey, Frifcb. t. 53»
Pfittacus aurantius, f • F t. Miller, pi. 5*
Parroquet from Angola, Albin, iii. t. 13.
Lev. Mtf.
1 ENGTH eleven inches and a half : free o f a Turtle. Bill
-Ly greenifh afh-colour : eyes and bafe of the bill furrounded
with a pale affi-coloured (kin: hides dull yellow: general colour
of the plumage orange yellow: the back and wing coverts marked
with yellow green fpots : the rump and upper tail coverts yellow
green: fides -and thighs red : wing coverts neareft the body
0 yellowiih
P l a c e .
28.
+- BRASILIAN
YELLOW
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n .
yellowiih green, edged with orange yellow; thofe fartheft from
the body blue : greater quills blue on the outfide, and of a yellowiih
green within; the leffer ones'of the laft colour: the fix
middle tail feathers yellowiih green; the three outfide ones the
fame, but blue on the outer edge : tail wedge-lhaped : legs and
claws reddifh.
Inhabits Angola; but Albin, though he has given it this title,
fays it came from the Eaji Indies, and adds, that it learns to
talk.
In Frifich, the bill is red-brown, and round the eye the Ikin is
red.
La Perruche jaune du Brefil, Brif. orn. iv. p. 369.
Le Guarouba ou Perriche jaune, Buf. oif. vi. p. 2
Perruche jaune de Cayenne, PI. enl. 525.
Quijubatui, Raii Syn. p. 33.
---------- ■ Will. orn. p. 117. fe£t. 4. at tbe end.
fjpHIS beautiful fpecies is lefs than the common Parrakeet: the
length about eleven inches. Bill grey: eyes black: the
whole bird of a fine yellow, except the greater quills, which are
green : the tail is yellow, cuneated, and pretty long, t
Inhabits Brafil, . fometimes ;in the Amazons. Country *, but not
found at Cayenne. It is called by the natives Guiaruba, which
fignifies yellow bird. ■ It does not learn to talk! It is a folitary
bird, and not difficult to tame. The natives, in the fale of it, fet
a great price, on account of its fcarcity; however, the bird