2 9+ P A R R O T .
P lace.
lour : forehead fcarlet : top of the head blue : on each cheek, under
the eye, an orange fpot : the reft of the plumage green, paleft
beneath : upper ridge of the wing yellow, but in other particulars
like the laft but one.
Bancroft tells us it is in Guiana.
96.
V au. C.
BRASILIAN
GREEN
PARROT.
Plittacus Brafilienfis, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 147. N° 36.
Le Perroquet à front rouge du Brefil, Brif. orn. iv. p. 254. N° 30*
Le Crik à tête bleue, Buf. oif. vi. 232. var. 3.
Brafilian gréen Parrot, Ed<w. iv. t. 161.
, , . ---- 1 Bancroft Guiana, p. i 6q.
D e s c r i p t i o n . g I Z E of a common tame Pigeon. Bill flefh-colour : forehead
and throat red : under and behind each eye blue : top of the
head yellowifh green : mod of the body green : lower ridge of
the wing red : part of the quill feathers blue : middle tail feathers
green, outermoft but one red, the outer one blue; the whole tail
tipped with fine yellow : legs brownifh afh. So far Bdwards, who
was informed that it came from Brajil ; and, according to Mr.
Bancroft, Guiana.
Buffon fuppofes it a variety only of the others *.
* M. Scopoli mentions a Parrot, which he thinks to be a variety, and defcribes
it thus Size of a Mifiel-Thrufh : forehead and crown red: bill horn^olour,
bafe of it brown : cheeks naked : general colour of the plumage green : quills
and tail blue on the outer edges : rump yellow green,—See Pfitt. pileatus,
Scop. am. i. p. Z2. N° jz.
9 Authors
Authors talk of a Parrot, variegated with feveral colours,
made fo by art *. Mr. P erne tty fays j", that fuch Parrots are
frequently met with on the IJle of St. Catharine, and the Coafts of
Braftl. The whole plumage, fays he, efpecially the head, neck,
back, and belly, were thick fet with feathers, fome of the colour
of jonquil, others citron, carmine, crimfon, and all intermixed
with green, more or lefs deep, and a lively blue, elpecially about
the ears. He was told that the natives plucked out the feathers
while young, and putting in fomething of a poifonous nature in
the Head, caufed them to come of a different colour, and feldom
by this means loft above five or fix in a hundred
Counterfeit:
Parrots..
L e P e rro q u e t à tefte ro u g e d u B refil, B rif orn. iv . p . 2 4 0 . N ° 2 4 , 9 7 .
L e T a ra b é , ou A m a z o n e à tê te ro u g e , Buf. oif. v i. p . 2 1 1 , R E D -H E A D E U
T a r a b e , Raii Syn. p . 3 3 . N ° 5 .— Will, orn. p . 114. N ° 9 . ^ A R R O T ^
J IG G E R than the Ceram Lory. Bill cinereous : general colour Description:.
green : head,, throat, fore part of the neck, and bread,, red :
lefler wing coverts the fame : legs cinereous: claws black.
Inhabits Brajil: not at Guiana, P l a c e ,
* See F r ifch . p i . 4 9 .— P I . enl, 1 2 0 .— Hijl. des oif. v i. p i. i p . 4 Voy. aux Malouines, i. p . 177.
$ Buffon fays, on th e c o n tra ry , th a t it is a d an g e ro u s o p e ra tio n , tiia t a g re a t
m a n y d ie u n d e r it,, a n d for this reafo n th e y alw ays fell d e a r. H e lik ew ife add s,,
th a t th e n ativ es u fe th e b lo o d o f a b ea u tifu l b lu e an d g o ld fro g o n th is o ccafion .
llifl, des oif v i. p . 235., See alfo Will» orn* p . n o ..
Pilttac