P lace. Inhabits the Philippine IJles, particularly Luçonia. M. Sonnerai
* obferves, that it is only kept for its plumage, as it never
learns to talk.
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Fetites Perruches de Pifle de Lufon, Son. Voy. p. 77. t. 4.
La Perruche a ailes noires, Buf. oif, vi. p. 174.
tjpHIS fpecies islefs than the laft. Bill and irides yellow : hind
part of the neck, back, -wing coverts, and tail, deep green :
belly light green and yellowilh : the top of the head is of a
bright red: the breaft blue : greater quills black: upper tail coverts
red: legs yellow.
The female differs in having only the feathers which furround
the upper part of the bill red j and a fpot of yellow on the upper
part o f the neck: the breaft is red: otherwife like the male.
Inhabits the ijle of Luzonia: and M. Sonnerat fays he has every
reafon to fuppofe them male and female, as their manners agree,
and they frequent the fame places. They are particularly fond
of the juice which oozes from the branches of the cocoa-trees,
when frelh cut: and both of them likewife deep on the perch,
fufpended by one foot, with the head downwards.
* Voy, a la N. Guinée, p. 77.
Ffittacus
Pflttacus pafferinus, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 150. ^ 4 7 .
La petite Perruche à cut bleu du Brelil, Brif. orn. iv. p. 384, N® 83.
L ’Eté, ou Toui-été, Buf, oif. vi. p. 283.
Tuiete, Raii Syn. p. 34. N° 6.— Will. orn. p. n é . ch. 14. N° 6.
Lead green and blue Parrakeet, Ednu. glean. t. 235.
Short-tailed yellowilh green Parroquet, Bancr. Guiart. p. 162.
g I Z E of a Houfe Sparrow : length four inches. The bill is
orange, as are the cere and orbits : general colour green :
rump and upper tail coverts blue : lelfer wing coverts green, like
the reft of the body ; the greater ones blue : greater quills green :
beneath the wing the colour is chiefly greenilh afh-colour : legs
and claws orange.
Inhabits Brajil and Guiana.
Buff on’s bird had the quills edged with blue inftead of green,
the bill fiefh-colour, and the legs cinereous, but mofc likely is the
fame bird, perhaps the other fex.
Linneeus fays the quills are blue beneath.
La petite Perruche a gorge jaune, Brif. orn. iv. p. 356. N° 89. t. 30. f. 3.
Le Toui a gorge jaune, Buf. oif. vi. p. 280.
Petite Perruche a gorge jaune d’Amerique, PI. enl. 190. f. 1.
SIZE of the crefted Lark : length fix inches and three quarters.
Bill light grey: general colour of the plumage green, lighted
beneath: hind part of the neck inclining to yellow, as well as the
under parts of the body: under the throat is a fmall, round, pale
orange fpot: on the middle of the wing coverts is a cheftnut fpot,
glofled withgold and green, making a broad band on the wing.:
greater
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YELLOWTHROATED
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