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Title: The royal natural history
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Frostick, W. B., former owner. DSI Brooks, W. T., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Natural history
Publisher: London and New York : Frederick Warne & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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BLUE-WINGED FARROTLET. Blunt-Tailed Green Parrots. Subfamily Pionix.e. The familiar Amazon parrots are among the best known representatives of alarge subfamily, containing several American genera and also a single African one.All these parrots are distinguished from the members of the preceding subfamilyby their broad and short or moderate tails, which are never of the acuminate and AAfAZO.VS. pointed form characteristic of the conures, and have the tips of the feathersrounded. In the whole of them the cere is entirely naked, and the predominantcolour of the plumage green. Usually the tail is about half the length of thewing, and may be either squared or rounded at the end; and the bill is of moderate
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ALL-GREEN PAURAQUET (i liat. sizc). strength, sometimes rather longer than deep. The )Sew World forms are all of them tropical. Tlie Amazon parrots, of which there are over forty species, areATTifl,zoii P3.rrots ^ niostly comparatively large birds, sometimes exceeding 17 inches in length, and range from Mexico to Argentina, altliough especially characteristic of the great river valley from which they take tlieir name. Tliey are characterised by the tail being of moderate length and rounded, with the inider-coverts always green ; and also by the absence of a tufted oil-gland, as wrll as liy the completeness of the bony ring round the eye. One of tlie best known species is the fe.stive amazon (CJirysotis/estiva), from the Amazon Valley, which is a green bird with a red frontlet, a line of blue above and behind the eye, the back and rump red, 122 . PARROTS. and the bastard-wing, together with the primary wing-coverts and the outer websof the primaries deep blue. Most of the species are d

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