Identifier: royalnaturalhist47lyde (find matches)
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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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 distinguished from oneanother by the markings of the head and face, while a few differ by their smallersize. They are all essentially forest-dwelling birds, associating in flocks, andfeeding upon the fruits of palms and other trees. They usually lay from threeto four eggs, and produce but one brood in the year. If taken sufficiently early,the young are extraordinarily tame ; and as these birds are very hardy, they arefavourites in captivity, more especially as many of them rival the grey parrot intalking and mimicry. Indeed, the festive amazon frequently becomes sufficientlydomesticated to be allowed to wander in gardens at large.
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HAWK-BILLED PARROT (\ liat. size). iff- ^^^ Hawk-Billed One of tlic most remarkable members of this subfamily is the Parrot. hawk-billed parrot (Deropty^is accipitriiius) of Guiana, the AmazonValley, and North-East Brazil, which is the sole representative of its genus. Itdiffers from the amazons by the presence of a tufted oil-gland, and by therelatively longer tail, and is specially characterised by the beak being rathershort, and deeper than long, but above all by the elongation and breadth of thefeathers on the hinder part of the neck, which form an erectile collar or ruff.The coloration of this extraordinary bird is very striking. While the back andvipper surface of the wings are green, the head is brown, with lioary streaks onthe sides; the elongated feathers of the nape, together with those on the abdomen GREY PARROT. 123 and breast are dark red, with Line edges; and the bastard-wing, primaries, andprimary-coverts are black. The tail-feathers are green, tinged with blue near the

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