Note 3010 — BOOK X. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS.
John Bostock translation
It has not been identified with precision. Pliny, B. xviii. c. 69 calls it a small bird. Some make it the popinjay; others, with more probability, the lapwing. Horace, B. iii. Ode 27, mentions it as the parra, a bird of ill omen.