Place
AND
M anners.
!13* HOODED
PARROT.
thighs, and vent, yellowifh orange brown : quills blue; the very
edges green.
Inhabits Mexico, Guiana, and the Carraccas, in South America:
It is commonly found in woods, and does not frequently approach
the inhabited parts : itmakes no other noife than a fhrill
whittle, which it often repeats in its flight, and does not learn to
talk.
Thefe birds fly in fmall numbers together, but are perpetually
quarrelling with one another : and if any one is taken, it refufes
all food, till at laft it is ftarved to death. Parrots of the moft
ftubborn nature are often fubdued by means of the fmoke of tobacco
; but this bird is only put into bad humour by the attempt.
Whoever, therefore, would have thefe Parrots, muft train them
up young i and this would fcarce be worth while, were it not for
the fake of variety.
Buffon obferves, that this bird and the following differ much
from other Parrots, being of a heavy, dull nature; are thick,
ihort-necked, and the body more thick and fhorter than in other
Parrots: and the feathers are alfo clofer fet on the body, and appear,
in Ihort, as if artificially fattened, efpecially on the breaft
and under parts.
Le Ca'ica, S i i f . eif. vi. p. 253*
Perruche à têie noire de Cayenne, P I . enl. 744.
The head is covered with a hood of black, out of which the
eye appears, which is furrounded by a white ikin angulated before
and behind: the black part proceeds on each fide to the
- - under
under mandible, but does not reach the chin : round the back of
the neck it is fulvous ; and the chin and fore part yellowilh: the
reft of the body for the moft part green ; but feems to be divided
longitudinally, when the wing is clofed, by a lky-blue mark,
which is the edge of the wing near the Ihoulder, continuing along
the edges of the greater quills, which are of a deeper colour
within : the two middle tail feathers are a little fhorter than the
others; all of them are green, with blue tips, except the two
middle ones, which are of one plain colour: the legs are red.
This Was fent from Cayenne, where it was not obferved till P lace,
the year 1773 j but fince that time has every year come in fmall
flocks in September and Ottlober, where it makes but a fhort ftay,
and therefore has the appearance of a bird of paflage. This
is, in make and lhape, like the laft. It is called in the country
language by the name of Ca'ica.
Pfittacus Senegalus, Lin. Syji.i. p.149. N° 43. ,
La petite Perruche de, Senegal, Srif. orn. iv. p. 400. N° cjz. t. 24. f. 2. +■ SENEGAL
Le Perroquet à tête grile, Buf. oif. vi. p, 123.— PI. enlum. 288. PARROT.
Lev. Muf.
g lZ E of a Blackbird : length eight inches and a quarter. Bill D e s c r i p t io n .
alh-coloured : cere blackilh : orbits the fame : irides fine yellow
: general colour on the upper parts green, which pafîës forward
on each fide, to the breaft: the head is of an elegant afli-
colour : the quills and baftard wings the fame, edged outwardly
with green : the under parts of the body are orange, deepeft on
the' fides : tail deep alh ; margins greenifh : legs of a reddilh afh-
colour.
R r 2 Inhabits