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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3653870" data-attributes="member: 24811">The parrot certainly looks like an Amazona; the plate caption says it's Brazilian and white-headed; unless part of this is wholly incorrect, I think the least-worst match may still be A. aestiva aestiva, as suggested in the Key.The other bird... Well, even identifying it down to an order is not at all straightforward.The plate caption calls is an Indian 'woodpecker' which is largely sky blue. The text says (presumably about the depicted bird) that, in the genus Bucco established by Brisson (in Italian he calls these birds 'barbets'), there are birds that appear in all respects similar to woodpeckers, except for their bill which is slightly decurved, convex above, compressed laterally, and which has rigid, hair-shaped feathers pointing frontwards at its base.It's probably (?) far-fetched but, if South American like the other birds ("Indian" in the sames sense as the Melanerpes), with its blue tail, blue wings, blue head sides encircling a black cap, and some rufous in the body plumage, I'd be tempted to suggest a poor depiction of a (turquoise-browed?) motmot with broken tail feathers.</blockquote>