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Title: A general history of birds
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Latham, John, 1740-1837
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Winchester (Eng.) Printed by Jacob and Johnson, for the author sold in London by G. and W.B. Whittaker (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Parrots; and Buftbn with those having longones ; it is, therefore, uncertain; as Marcgrave, from whom thedescription is copied, does not mention the circumstance. 47—ANGOLA YELLOW PARROT. Psittac. solstitialis, Ind. Om. 1. 92. Lin. i. 141. Gm. Lin. i. 320. Shaws Zool. viii. 448. pi. 65.Pslttacus aurantius, T. F. Miller, ill. t. 5.■ croceus, Klein, av. p. 25. , luteus cauda longa, Frisch. t. 53. Psittaca angolensis lutea, Bris.iv. 371. Id. 8vo. ii. 144.Perruche jaune, Buf. vi. 147.Angola Yellow Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 224. Alb. iii. pi. 13. LENGTH eleven inches. Bill greenish ash-colour; eyes andbase of the bill surrounded with a pale skin; irides dull yellow;general plumage orange yellow; back and wing coverts markedwith yellow green spots ; rump and upper tail coverts yellow green ;sides and thighs red; wing coverts nearest the body yellowishgreen, with orange yellow edges ; those farthest from the body blue;greater quills blue without, and yellowish green within ; the lesser PLXxm.
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.Joj/ytu/J/oWK/- PARROT. 143 ones green ; tail cuneiform ; the six middle feathers yellowish green,the three outside ones the same, the outer margins blue; legs reddish.Inhabits Angola, and probably the East Indies.—Albin observes,that it learns to talk.—In Frisch, the skin round the eye is red. 48 —JONQUIL PARRAKEET—Pl. XXIII. Psittacus Narcissus, hid. Orn. Sup. p. xxl. Shaws Zool. viii. 427.Jonquil Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 83. pl. Ii3. LENGTH ten inches. Bill flesh-colour; general plumage finejonquil yellow, paler beneath ; crown of the head and cheeks crimson;and a large spot of the same at the bend of the wing, next theshoulder; round the neck, beneath the crimson, a collar of white, orvery pale, changing to greenish at the hind head; tail cuneiform,and half as long again as the bird ; the two middle feathers palebufl-colour; the others more or less yellow, most so nearest the base ;quills pale j^ellow, paler within ; legs flesh-colour. Inhabits India,—a living spec

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