Placer
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YELLOWHEADED
AMAZONS
PARROT.
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89.
V a r . A.
YELLOW-
CROWNED
PARROT.
blue: quills black, with the,margins of fome of them blue and
others green : the two middle tail feathers green ; the next yel-
Jow on the infide half way from the bafe, near the fliaft reddiflj,
the end green; the next three on. each fide red like the laft, but
on both fides; and the-outer, one red, with the end yellowilh
green, and the outer margin blue: legs grey: claws brown.
Inhabits- Martinico.
EJTttacus nobilis *, Lin.SyJfl\. p. 140. N3j . .
Le Perroquet Amazone du Breûl, Rrif orn. iv. p. 272. N ' 33. t. 26'. f. r. -
L ’Amazone à tète jaune, Bu/. ni/. vi. p. 208.
p )U F F O N places this bird at the head of his Amazonian
Parrots, and defcribes it thus: The bill ■ is red at the
bafe, and alh-coloured the. reft of its length: irides yellow:
top of the head lively bright yellow : throat, neck, back, and
upper wing coverts, green : breaft and belly yellowifh green r
ridge of the wing bright red : quills varied with green, black;
violet blue,, and red : the two outer tail feathers have the inner
webs red at the bafe, beyond that of a deep green to near the endj
which is yellow green : legs grey : claws black.
L ’Amazone à tête jaune, var u Buf, oif, vi. p. 209.
Perroquet vert & rouge dé Cayenne, PI, enl, 312.
tTTIIS bird differs from the former in having only a little yellow
on the forehead inftead of the whole crown: .the green co-
• This only regards the fynonyms placed under the nohilis ; for he certainly
means a different bird, with naked cheeks, fuch as is defcribed in. the Mu/o
Adolf hi Fred, ii, p. 13.—noticed by us in p. 207. N° 8,
6 lour
Jour is alfo lefs bright, or a kind of yellowiih green : on the wing
a little red as in the laft: and a fhade of yellow under the tail 5
the bill is reddilh, and the legs grey: the fize is the fame, fo as
to put it out of doubt the being a variety: the length about
nine inches.
This, fays Buffon, has not been mentioned by any naturalift before,
although the bird is known at Guiana by the name of the
baftard Amazon, or half Amazon ; and they fay that it fprings from
a crofs breed with another Parrot.
One in the Leverian Mufeum has the forehead and fides of the
head, as far as the .ears, yellow 5 the reft of the head and body
green : the ridge of the wing is red, and a fpot of the fame in the
middle o f the-wing, &c. like the.others.
In the fame place is another, fuppofed to be younger, in which
the yellow on the forehead is not diftind, being mixed with
green : the ridge of the wing likewife is of a mixed red-colour,
.and the end of the bafe of the tail not fo dark: it has a line of
black juft round the bill, and the fize npt fo large.
Le ’Perroquet Amazone à bec varié, Sri/, orn. iv. p. 270.
L ’Amazone à tête jaune, var. 2. Bu/, oi/. vi. p. 210.
Pfittacus Poikilorhynchos Aldrovandi, Raii Syn. p. 30. N° 3.
Aldrovandus his Parrot, with a parti-coloured bill, Will. orn. p. 113.
rJ 'H IS is as large as a Fowl : and is in length eighteen inches.
It varies chiefly in the bill ; and is defcribed by Willughby in
this manner : “ The upper chap in the upper part was of a
blueilh green ; of a yellow oker on the fides ; the tip croffed
with a white fpot ; the lower chap of the bill of a lead-colour
round about, and yellow in the middle.”
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V a r . B.
PARTY-BILLED
PARROT.
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