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which M. de Buff on fpeaks of* is fome variety of this fpecies, as
he fays it has a mixture of green on the wing coverts, as well as a,
mixture of colours in the tail feathers, the points of which are
violet blue : the middle of the tail and the rump are green, bordered
with yellow : reft of the body faffron or orange-colour.
I have one of thefe birds, as defcribed by Willughby, in my col-
leftion ; and there is another in the poffeffion of Capt. Davies s and
J remember likewife to have feen a third. Which was a trifle lefs in-
fize, and had a mixture of here and there a green feather throughout
the whole plumage; but the tail was of a pure yellow. I
make no doubt of this being a young bird, and that M. de Buff on’s-
was either fo, or differing in fex..
28.
V a r . A.
MEXICAN
YELLOW
BARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n .
P l a c e ,
La PerfncHe jaune da Mexique, Brif. orn. iv. p. 37b.
Avis Cocho, Pfittaci Mexicani fpecies, Stb. i. t. 64. f. 4.
"IN ffze it is equal to the common Parrakeet: length elevens
^ inches. Bill-reddifh: the head is of a pale red: the neck of
an orange red : back, rump,breaft, belly,, fides, thighs, upper and
under tail coverts, light yellow : upper wing coverts varied with,
green, red, and orange: quills green : tail wedge-fhaped, and of
a. pale yellow.
Inhabits Mexico : fuppofed to be a variety of the laft f .
See Blan ches enlum inées, 325, f H ß . des c if. vi. p. 274. (1) :
Efittacua-
Efittacus Carolinenfis, tin. Syfl. i. p. 141. N0^ .— Scop. Ann.i. p. 29. N° 25.
La Perruche de la Caroline, Brif. orn. iv. p. 330.—PI. enl. 499.
La Perriche à tête jaune, Buf. oif. vi. p. 274.
Perroquet, ÎV' ". Fermin Def rip. de Surinam, ii. p. 176
Parrot of Carolina, Catejb. Car. i. t. 11 '•
Caroline Parrot, Amer. Zool. N°
Ç IZ E of the green Parrakeet : length thirteen inches. Bill yel-
lowifh white ; both that and the eyes furrounded with a naked,
pale, afh-coloured Ikin : irides yellow : fore part of the head
orange : back part of the head, nape, and throat, yellow : lower
part of the neck behind, the back, rump, breaft, belly, fides,
upper and lower tail coverts, green : thighs the fame, but thofe
next the joint orange: edge of the wing orange: wing coverts
abovç green; the leffer ones beneath green, the greater brown :
quills brown on the infide, yellow on the outfide at the bafe, then
green, with the tips inclining to blue : the fecondaries green
above : all the quills brown beneath : tail much cunçated, and
green : legs and claws hoary.
This bird inhabits Guiana, migrating into Carolina and Virginia
in autumn. Catejby obferves, that it feeds on corn and kernels of
fruits, particularly thofe of cyprels and apples : comes in autumn
into Carolina in vaft flights, doing great damage in orchards, by
tearing to pieces the fruits to get at the kernels, the only part
which is agreeable to them. They have been known to build
their nefts in Carolina, but the major part retire fouth in breeding-,
time, returning again when thofe fruits are ripe which attraft them.
# I f this be the fame bird, he merely fays that the head, jhoftlders, and
thighs, are yellow ; the reft of the body of a very fine .green.
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29.
CAROLINE
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n *
P l a c e and
M anne rs *
P& traces