81.
V ar. A.
8z.
YELLOWBREASTED
LORY.
D e s c r i p t io n .
Place.
1 1 the Mufeum of T)r. Hunter is a- Parrot, which feems to-
nearly anfwer the above defcription. Length the fame: bill
black: cere dufky: head, neck, and breaft, fine red: upper parts
of the body brown and green, mixed with a little clouded blue,
in different parts: between the wings blue and green mixed: the
lower part of the breaft and belly blue: vent the fame, with a
mixture of greenifh: thighs deep cheftnut, the feathers with green-
margins: edge of wing, and under wing coverts, blue: quills
dufky, with deep blue margins: tail cheftnut,. with paler tips «
k g s dufky.
Pfittacus Guineenfis, J . F. Miller, t. 29;
J^ENGTH ten inches. Bill black: cere white: throat and'
round’ the eye the fame :' above the eye a patch of yellow::
reft o f the head and neck crimfon: the breaft is yellow: wing:
coverts green : quills blue,, edged with yellow: under the wings,-
belly, thighs, vent, and under part of the tail, white : the tips of
the laft red r legs .dufky : claws black.
Inhabits Guinea.
Mem. The colour of the back and upper part of the tail could
not be known, as the pofition of the bird in the print did not admit
of it-
Ee
Le Lory du B re ft I, Brif. or». xv. p. 225- N° iy.
Le Paragua, Buf. oif. vi. p. 248.
Paragua, Rail Syn. p. 3 3 , N° 4.
—-------— Will.orn. p. 115:. eh, 9.
<JIZE of the Amazons Parrot. Bill cinereous : irides red : head,
hind part of the neck, bottom of the belly, thighs, and lower
tail coverts, black : back, rump, upper tail coverts, throat, fore
part of the neck, breaft, upper part of the belly, and Tides, fcarlet:
the fcapulars, upper and under wing coverts, and quills, black:
the tail is alfo black.
Inhabits Brajil.. Buffon thinks there is fome probability of
this having an African origin, for the reafons given under the
cinereous Parrot.
Pfittacus-casruIocepKalus, Lin. Syji, i. p. 143. N° 28.
Le Perroquet bleu de la Guiane, Brif. orv. iv. p, 304. N°46.
Le Crik rouge & bleu, Buf. oif. vi. p. 226.
Pfittacus verficolor feu erythrocyanus AldroV. Rail Syn. p. 31. N° 6.-
Red and-blue Parrot of Aldrovandus, Will. orn. p. 114, N° 6.
g I Z E of the dufky Parrot: length nine inches. The bill is
blackifh : fpace round the eyes bare and whitifh : irides yellow
: head, throat, neck, and breaft, blue: on the top of the
head is a yellow fpot: upper part of the back pale blue: lower,
fides, and rump, yellow: belly green : the feathers of the wing
and tail are role-colour; the coverts of the firft are mixed with
green, yellow,, and rofe-colour; thofe of the tail green : legs
reddilh grey.
9'
83.
PARAGUAN
LORY.
D e s c r i p t io n -
P l a c e ,
84-.
RED AND
BLUE PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n ,.
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