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SCALYBREASTED
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'LITTLE
RED-WINGED
PARRAKEET.
irides aurora yellow: the feathers above the bill of a flate blue;
beneath Iky blue : the reft of the head brown : the lower part of
the neck flate blue: the throat is brown, with a yellow aurora
edge to each feather, making it appear in waves: fold of the
wing fire-colour; the reft of the wing blue : middle of the belly
lilac veined with brown: and on the middle of the tail is a longitudinal
line of lilac: tail Ihorter than in other Parrakeets, and
of a red brown on the under fide: legs and claws black.
Inhabits Cayenne, and, according to Fermin, Surinam like-
wife.
of a common Parrakeet: length eight inches and a half.
Bill dulky : round the eye a pale bare fkin: head, neck,
,and breaft, dull orange; each feather black in the middle, giving
the parts the appearance of being covered with fcales: lower part
of the back and rump, and middle of the belly, of a blood red :
fhoulders crimfon : forehead, belly, thighs, and all the other
.parts, of a dark green : legs and claws dulky.
This came from Cayenne, and is in the collection of Capt,
Davies.
LaPerruche des Indes, Brif. orn.ve. p. 341. N° 63,
La Perruche a Gorge rouge, Buf. oif. vi. p. 157.
Little red-winged Parrakeet, Ed-uj. glean, pi. 236.
T ENGTH eight inches and a half: fize of a crefted Lark.
Bill flelh-colour : cere and fpace round the eyes whitifh :
irides deep hazel: general colour green, -paled: beneath : chin of
e a fine
a fine fcarlet: the wing coverts are all of a fine reddilh colour:
tail four inches and a half long, and much cuneated: legs and
claws of a pale flelh-colour.
Ihhabits the Eaji Indies.
La Perruche fouris, Buf. oif. vi. p. 148.
Perruche a poitrine grife, PI. enl. 768»
Perruche, Pernetty Voy. aux Malouines, vol. i. p. 312*
J^ENG TH ten inches. The bill light grey : the face, throat,
and breaft, of a rat-grey: the reft of the body olive green,
except the quills, which are of a deep green: tail five inches long:
legs grey. Buffon obferves, that the dead and dull colour of
the plumage gives the bird an air o f melancholy; for it is lefs
bright than any of the lpecies;
Place unknown.
Pernetty fays "that his bird Was of the fize of a Thrufh.
Bill lhort, very hooked, and of a flelh-colour : plumage entirely
green, except the, neck, breaft, and a fmall part of the belly,
which were of a filvery grey:, tail very long.
Thefe, fays he,- were met with at Montevideo, and bought by
the failors for two piaftres apiece. They were tame and gentle,
eafily learned to fpeak, and articulate well, and were pleafed
with company, too often joining in converfation with them. It
was the common opinion, that they lived but one year, if confined
in a cage. This fpecies is not far remote from. the. other, if not
the very fame.
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