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From: dob@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Daniel M. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: a *real* parrot posting
Message-ID: <6716@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Jan 88 14:52:34 GMT
References: <431@picuxa.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <431@picuxa.UUCP>, gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190) writes:
> ... they turned out to be a pair of Black-headed Nanday.

Ah, the rare and elusive Nanday Conure, Nandayus nenday.  The only 
representative of its genus.  "General plumage green, paler and more yellowish 
on underparts; head black; throat and upper breast washed with blue; thighs 
red; rump, lower back, and under wing-coverlets yellowish-green; outer webs of 
flight feathers blue; upper side of tail olive-green tipped with blue; 
undersides of flight and tail feathers grey; bill black; iris dark brown; legs 
brownish-pink."  (_Parrots of the World_, Joseph M. Forshaw, T.F.H.  
Publications, Inc, 1977, pg 407.) 

How lucky you are to be able to report a sighting.  Their natural habitat is in
Argentina, SA.
-- 
Daniel M. O'Brien (ihnp4!ihlpa!dob)
AT&T Bell Laboratories  Room IH 1B-237
Naperville-Wheaton Road,  Naperville, IL 60566