P .R O W N
p a r r o t .
D e s c r i p t io n ,'
Le Perroquet brun, Brif. orn. iv. p* 3J4* N° 51.
c-r“ jq E whole of this bird is of a plain brown afh-colour : it is*.
a trifle lefs than the afh-coloured Parrot; and is thirteen-,
inches and a half long. Buffon* mentions one, which is in the
French king’s cabinet, of the lame fize.with the. laft,. but had neither
the black mafk, nor was white at the bafe of the tail; perhaps -
it might be this bird of Briffon’s-, or, as it had the bill fmall in.
proportion, may prove an intermediate fpecies, .between the two.,
laft, partaking much of both..
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HA WK-
HEADED
PARROTPfittacus
accipitrinus, Lin. Syjh i. p- 14^* 3^*
Le Perruche varie des Indes, Brif. orn. iv. p. -300. N° 43; -
Le. Paroquet varie, Buf. oif. vi. p. 117.
Piittacus elegans Cluiii, Rati Syn. p. 32. N° n .
Hawk-headed Parrot, Ed*w. iv. t. 165.
D e s c r i p t io n . C IZ E of a fmall Pigeon: length, twelve inches..and a half. Bill!
and cere blackifh : round the eyes the fame, and b<ye : irides -
deep yellow or hazel: head, cheeks,.and throat, brown; on each:
feather is a paler ftripe down the middle: neck, breaft, and belly,
purple; the feathers edged with blue : back, rump, fcapulars,
upper wing and tail coverts, .fine green: Tides, and under leffer
wing coverts yellow green ; the greater ones, blue black : prime-
quills black above, the outer edges and tips blue; the feconda-
ries green: tail a little rounded,, and five inches and a quarter
long ; above green; all the feathers except the two middle ones
have blue tips; beneath blue black: legs and claws dark lead-
* BiJK des oif, vi. p, -izr,
colour.
‘'colour. "When this bird is provoked, it fets up the feathers round
(the neck like a ruff*.
Inhabits the Eajl Indies.
Le Papegai maille, Baf. oif. vi. p. 2^.9, t. 1-2*
Le-PerroquetmaiHe, PI. enl. -$z6.
^T-vHE top of the head, and round the face,, covered -with nar-
-*■ row and long white feathers ftriped with blackifh: hind
head and fide« of the neck of a fine red brown edged with blue :
-breaft and ftomach lhaded with the fame, with a glofs of green :
the upper parts of the body and tail are of a gloffy green : the
■ quills, and under the tail, are brown ; and the edges of the tail
feathers violet blue. When this bird is irritated, it fets up the
feathers round the head like a ruff|
This, fays Buffon, is only a variety of the laffc bird, hawing
been brought originally from the Eaft Indies, and now natu-
-ralifed to Guiana, where it is now found. It is obferved to have
a fharp and flirill cry, different from all other Parrots of the American
continent.
I have fome notion that this is"-the bird mentioned by Fermin,
fry the name of Ferroquet varie +. He fays that the feathers of
the neck are variegated, of a deep reddifh colour tipped with
elegant blue : belly the fame, but fprinkled with brown : back
green : quills blueifh : tail all green.
This defcription fomewhat differs ; but what ftrikes me, is the
circumftance of the bird’s fetting up the feathers round the head
T c a c b .
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V a r . A.
MAILED
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n ,
*• See this remarked by Clufius, in his difcourfe on Parrots. Will. orn. p. up.
t Defer, de Sarin, ii. p. 176.