markable for their exceeding fine texture ; but we did not fee the'
birds. If they had a different conftrudtion, the monkies would
be very mifchievous to them ; but now, before they can get to
the opening, the loweft part, as the weakeft, breaks in pieces, and
the vifitor falls to the ground without any danger to the young
birds.”
Without the leaft hefitation, I place the two laft as varieties,
as they manifeftly run into one another, owing to age, fex, or
other reafons. To be convinced of this, let the Planches enluminées,
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La petite Ferruche brune du Brefil, Brif. orn. iv. p. 405.
L’Anaca, Buf. oif. vi. p. 260.
Anaca Braiilienlibus, Rail Syn. p. 35. N° 8.
------ - ------ - Will* orn. p. 117. ch^4. N° 8.
Br. Mu).I
S IZE of a Lark. Bill and orbits brown: crown of the head
cheftnut: throat cinereous : hind part of the neck, back,
rump, fides, thighs, fcapulars, upper wing and tail coverts',
green: on the back is a pale brown fpot: fore part of the neck,
breaft, belly, and under tail coverts, rufous brown : edge of the
wing red : greater quills green, with fea-green ends: fecondaries
green : tail light brown : legs and claws blackifh.
Inhabits Brafil and Guiana, at which laft place it is called the
common Parrot. In the Britijh Mufeum there is a fpecimen
which varies in having the fpot on the back of a deep cheftnut:
no red on the edge of the wing : tail itfelf green; being only the
upper tail coverts which are brown, and the under tail coverts of
a pale brown.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.
C IZ E of the Guinea Parrakeet, or a trifle bigger: length eight
inches. Bill pale yellow: crown afh-colour: hind part of
the neck the fame, but very pale : middle of the back and wings
green: under parts of the body the fame, but paler: the lower
part of the back and rump deep blue : edge of the wing, and tip
o f the baftard wing, blue: fcapulars Brown : fides oyer the thighs
yellowifh: tail fcarcely rounded ; the two middle feathers green
tipped with black; all the others of a deep purplifh crimfon
fringed with black; the ends of all the tail feathers nearly fquare:
the tail coverts are very long, fo as to hide the purple outer feathers
when much clofed: legs afh-colour: claws yellowifh.
A moft perfedt fpecimen is in the Leverian Mufeum, which
came from Cayenne ■, and a fecond in the Britijh Mufeum. I am
alfo in pofiefiion of a third, though not quite perfedt in the tail.
I have never feen any others, and believe they are iiot commonly
known.
La petite Perruche de Madagafcar, Brif. orn. îv. p. 394, N° 88. t.,30, f. 2.
La Perruche à têtegrife, Buf. oif. vi. p. 171,
Petite Perruche de Madagafcar, PI, enl. 791. f. 2.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.
g I Z E of a Houfe Sparrow: length five inches and three quarters.
Bill grey : general colour above green; beneath yellow green :
head, throat, and fore part of the neck, grey, inclining to green :
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