98.
MANILLA
GREEN
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t i o n ,
Pfittacus Lucionenlis, L in . S y fl. i. p. 146. N° 31.
Lo Perroquet de L’lfle de LU9011, B r if, orn. iv. p. 295. t. 22. f. 2.
C IZ E of a common Pigeon: length twelve inches- and a half.
The bill is fcarlet, with a white tip: cerereddilh: general
colour green, with a caft of yellow: hind head, lower part o f
the back, and rump, blue green: on the fcapulars is a little mixture
of blue and rufous: greater quills brown on the inner, and
yellow on the outer edge ; the third and fourth quills the longeft:
tail four inches and three quarters in lengths above green, beneath
yellowifh; the two middle feathers exceed the others in
length by one inch-, legs cinereous: claws blackilh.
P l a c e . Inhabits the Ifland of Luzonia.
99-
NEW-GUINEA
GREEN'
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
Grand Perroquet verd de JaNouvelle Guinee, Son* Voy. p. 74. t, 108.
C IZ E of the common Amazons Parrot. The upper mandible
of the bill the colour of orpiment; the under black: irides
fire-colour : plumage in general of a light grafs green: great
quills indigo blue; the lefier beneath of a carmine red.
P l a c e . Inhabits New Guinea.
100.
ROBUST
PARROT.
D e s c r l p r i o N .
bird is of a ftout, robuft make, being as big as
* a middle-fized Pigeon. The length is twelve inches. Bill
large, ftout, and of a white colour; round the upper mandible
the feathers are blackilh : whole head greenilh grey;
the crown’ has dulky ftreaks down the middle of each feather:
ther: neck and body green, paleft on the under parts: the
rump and upper tail coverts are alfo of a very pale green: wing
coverts dulky black, each feather fringed with green on the
margin : the quills are brown : on the bend of the wing is
a fpot of crimfon ; and on the outer edge, about the middle, it is
crimfonalfo: the tail is even at the end, and, like the quills,
brown : the legs dulky.
In Sir Jofepb Banks’s collect ion: from whence unknown.
Piittacus agilis, Lin, S y ji. i. p. 143. N° 20.
te Perroque): de Cayenne, Brif. orn, iv. p. 237. N° 23,
Le Criq, Buf. oif. vi. p. 228.
Criq de Cayenne, P L en l. 839.
Little green Parrot, E d™ , iv. t. 168.
g IZ E of a fmall Pigeon : length ten inches and a half. Bill alh-
colour: irides dark hazel: round the eye bare, and alh-co-
loured : the plumage in general of a dark green, lighted: beneath:
quills blue, the inner webs and tips black: one of the feathers of
the greater coverts is red, and falls over the quills: the two middle
tail feathers are green ; the three next on each fide are red
three parts of the way on the inner web, the reft green ; the
two middle feathers a trifle longer than the others: legs aih-
colour.
Inhabits Cayenne, and other parts of America.
ior.
AGILE
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n .
Plaçai