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ILLINOIS
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n .
P la ce and
M a n n e r s .
Pfittacus pertlnax, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 142. N° 15. •
La Perruche Illinoife, Br if. orn. iv. p. 353, N° 68.— PI. enl. 52S.
L ’Aputejuba, Bu f. oif. vi. p. 260. t. 13.
Kleiner lang fchwartziger grune Papagey, &c. Frifcb• t.,54.
Tui Aputejuba, Rail fyn. p. 34. N° 2.
Tui fpecies iecunda, R aii fyn. p. 181. N° 6.— Will, orn. p. Ii6.
Yellow-faced Parrakeet, Edw. t. 234.
Illinois Parrot, Am. Zool. N°
g I Z E of a common Parrakeet: length nine inches and a half
The bill is of a light alh-colour: eyes and upper mandible
placed in a naked alb-coloured ildn : irides deep orange : general
colour green above, yellow green beneath : the forehead1,
cheeks, and throat, fine orange: crown óf the head deep green ;
paled toward the hind head, where it is mixed with yellow : fore
part of the neck cinereous green: on the belly a few orange
fpots: quills blue green, inner margins and lhafts blackilb; the
five next the body green : tail cüneated j the two middle feathers
exceed the outer one by an inch and three quarters ; it is green
above; the two middle feathers plain; fome of the others have
cinereous margins, and others yellowifh ones: legs deep alh :
claws brown.
This inhabits Brafil, and is common at Guiana as well as
Cayenne-, they call it at this lad place Perruche-foux ié bots*, as it
* Wood Loufe Parrot. This infeft belongs to the 'Termos genus of Linnaus,
and is called by the Engliih in the Weft Indies, White or Wood A n t ; in Africa,
Fag Vague, or Bugabug: the devaftation of which is too well known in thé parts
where they frequent. Confult Adanfon's Voy. to Senegal, 8vo. p. 153» l 79*—*
Bofman's Voy. to Guinea, p. 276, 493.— Sloan, Jam, vol. ii. p. 221, f3V. & c . •
See alfo a curious and entertaining paper on this fuhjeft by Mr. Smeathman,
Phil, Tranf, vol. lxxi. p. 139.
generally
generally makes its neft in the habitations of thefe infedts.
it remains the whole year at Guiana, frequenting the favannas,
and other open places. This fpecies migrates far northward, being
exceeding common all up the banks of the Ohio, and the fouthern
fhores of Lake Erie— often feen in great numbers together, confiding
at lead of five hundred in a flock, and living, among other
things, on chednuts, acorns, and wild peas— like Rooks, have an
out-ceritinel to warn them of approaching enemiesand when
didurbed, fet up an horrible outcry all together. Their flelh is
accounted admirable by fome, being well relifhed both by the
French and Indians. The Englijh are not fo fond of it ; but I have
been told by fome, that Parrot foup, well made, is an excellent
dilh.
Lev. Muf.
C IZ E pretty large. Bill dulky : head and neck yellow : the
red of the body palilh green : tail cuneiform : vent ci union:
quills and end of the tail feathers blue.
A fpecimen in the Leverian Mufeum, but not known from
whence it came: I certainly think from the Eaji Indies or China,
as I have feen a drawing very like the above-defcribed, if not the
fame, which was taken from an original in that part of the
world.
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CRIMSONVENTED
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n .
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