This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ...irregular, and the tail became yellow, after which, no farther change of plumage took place. It is subject to variety, as shewn in the figure of Edwards, where the ground colour is mixed with red. In size it measures about 12 inches in length. The bill is black, strong, and much hooked, and the orbits, and space between them and the eyes, covered with a naked and white skin. The whole of the plumage, with the exception of the tail, which is of a bright deep scarlet, is of an ashgrey colour, deepest upon the back, and the feathers finely relieved and margined with paler grey. The irides are of a pale yellowish-white, the feet and toes grey, tinged with flesh-red. The limited number of engravings not admitting of a figure illustrative of every group, we can only remedy the deficiency by a description of such species as are remarkable, or typical of their respective genera. The Short and Even-tailed Parrots, as previously observed, have been divided by Wagler into several generic heads; but whether all of these will 9tand the test of such a separation, or are only to be regarded as slightly aberrant forms of the genus Psittacus, must depend upon a strict analysis of all the species. We shall, however, here consider them as forming distinct groups, detailing the principal characters of each as given by that eminent naturalist. The first is that of Eclectus, represented by the Eclectus Linncei, Wagler, and Ec. grandis, Wagler (the Psittacus grandis of Latham, &c), which differ from his restricted genus Psittacus in the form of the bill, the under mandible being narrower, the cere at the base scarcely visible, and the nostrils placed farther back, and hidden by the feathers of the brow. The texture of the plumage upon the head and neck is...