V ar. A.
RED-WINGED
ASHCOLOURED
-
PARROT.
68.
V ar. B.
RED AND ASH-
COLOURED
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n.
68.
V ar.C .
Le Perroquet de Guinée à ailes rouges, Sri/, on. iv. p. 313. A»
^TT'HIS differs from the other merely in having the wings
marked with red.
Le Perroquet de Guinée varié de rouge, Sri/, ont. iv. p. 313. B.
Afli-coloured and red Parrot, Eàw.'vr. t. 163.
too is a variety, having many red feathers mixed
throughout with the grey ones.
Pfittacus ruber, Scop. Ann. i. p. 32, 31.
£ C O PO L I alfo mentions a further variety. This had the head
afh-coloured : cheeks quite naked : on the bread two brown
feathers : prime quills cinereous brown: colour of the -reft of the
body not mentioned *, only that the tail is red.
A friend of mine has one of the fird defcribed, which has“ two
feathers on the middle of the bread crimfon, which has not varied
for many years.
It is not unufual for female Parrots to lay eggs in this country,
but as they are not-impregnated, no heed is taken of them. A
gentleman--}- at Marmanie in France had a male and female, which
for five or fix years together produced young ones. They made
-• Mod likely it was red, from his naming it the P/ttacus ruber - (red Parrot).
*)■ Iff. It Pigeoniire. Hiß, des oi/ vi. p. 115.
the ned in fpring, and the female laid four eggs, of which never
more than three were good. The ned was made in a cafk,
which had one end knocked out, and filled with faw-dud : proper
accommodations were made to get. in and out, fo that the male
might fit by his mate.. If any one; prefumed to enter the chamber
wherein they were, without his boots on, he was fure to differ,
by having his legs bit terribly by the male, who was jealous to a
degree, particularly i f any one approached the female. This is
not the fird account of a circumdance of the like kind, for Le P .
Labat * tells.us o f a pair which hatched young ones at Paris*
Le Perroquet cendre du.Brefil, Sri/, on. iv. p.313. N° 50.
Maracana Braiil. prima Marcgr. Raii Sjn. p. 20. N° 4.
Maracana, Wilt. orn. p. 112. N° 5.
8npHIS bird is faid by Willughly to be bigger than the lad. D e s c r i p t io n .
The whole plumage of a blueiih afh-colour.-
Said to inhabit Brafil. _
This mud originally have come from Guinea j-, as there are
none of this colour in America J, and, on the contrary, are very
common in Africa, and tranfgorted to America along with the.
negro Jlaves,
* Nouv. Foy. aux Jftes de PAmerique, ii. p. 160.
■ f Hift. des oif, vi. p. 249.
t Parrots, fo called, are very numerous, and of different ipecies, in Guiana, but
none of them deftitute of green feathers ; fuch as the ajb-coloured Parrot o f Gui-
u<a, the 'whiu-crejied Parrots, and fome others. Bancroft's Hi ft. of Guiana.
fy* ■
CINEREOUS
PARROT..
Le-v.