300 P A R R O T .
+- RED-
BANDED
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t io n .
Le Papegai a bandeau rouge, Buf. oif. vi. p. 241..
Perroquet de St. Domingue, PI. enl. 792.
> I 'HIS bird is nine inches and a half long. Bill pale flelh-co-
lour 1 on the forehead, from one eye to the other, is a band
of red : the plumage is in general green, pretty dark, marked as
it were with fcales of black on the neck and back •. the ftomach
P l a c b .
isreddifh: quills blue: legs alb-colour.
Inhabits St. Domingo.
105.
PARADISE
PARROT.
Pfittacus Paradili, Lin. Syjt. i. p. 147. N° 36.
Le Perroquet jaune de Cuba, Brif. orn. iv. p. 30S. N° 4S'.
Le Papegai de Paradis, Buf. oif. vi. p. 237.
Perroquet de Cuba, PI. enl. 336.
Cuba Parrot, Brovoid s Jam. p. 473.
Parrot of Paradife of Cuba, Catefb. Carol, i. t. 10.
D e s c r i p t io n . R A T H E R lefs than the common grey Parrot: length about,
twelve inches and a half. Bill white : irides red : round the
P l a c e *
eyes bare and white : general colour yellow, with the margins of
the feathers orange red : throat, fore part of the neck, and belly,
bright red: greater quills white : two middle tail feathers yet-
low; the others are red for two-thirds of the length, and the
other part yellow : legs white.
Inhabits Cuba.
P&ttacos
Plittacus aurora, Lin. Mantijf. 1774, p. 524*
Le Perroquet jaune, Brif. iv. p. 306. N°47. - -
' Orn. de Salerne, p. 69. N° 9. t. 7. f. 2.
I/Amazone jaune, Buf. oif. vi. p. 214. t. 10.
Perroquet jaune, PI. enL 13.
g lZ E o f the Amazons Parrot: length twelve inches. Bill and
cere white: eyelids, and irides red : the whole plumage fine
yellow, except the edge of the wing, which is of a fine red : beneath
the wings the yellow is very pale: all the prime quills, except
two or three of the firft, are red on the outer edge, in the
middle : tail rounded"; the four outer fyathers are red from the
bafe to the middle, but only on the inner webs: legs and claws
white.
Inhabits Mexico or Brafil\ but molt probably the fall, as M.
Salerne mentions the one which he faw as fpeaking the Portuguefe
tongue very diftinftlv, and was very tame.
Plittacus menfcuus, Lin Syfti i„ p. i48. N°- 39.— Scop. Ann. i. p. 33.
Le Perroquet à telle bleue de la Guiane, Brif. cm. iv. p. 247. N° z8.
Le Papegai à tête & gorge bleue, Buf. oif. vi, p. 243.
Perroquet à tête bleue de Cayenne, PL enl. 384.
Blue-headed Parrot, EU™. glean, pb 314.
Lev. Muf.
§ IZ E of the afh-coloured Parrot. Bill dulky, with a- red: fpot
on each fide of the upper mandible : eyes in a dark flelh-co-
louied Ikin : head, neck,, and part of the breafi:, ultramarine blue;
mixed with a little purple on the breafi on each, fide of the head*
10 6.
AURORA
PARROT.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
P l a g e ..
107.
BLUE-HEADED
PARROT.