Also vaza. [Malagasy vaza.] One or other of several Madagascar parrots belonging to the genus Coracopsis. Usu. attrib.
1811. Shaw, Gen. Zool., VIII. 528. Vasa Parrot. Ibid., 529. Smaller Vasa Parrot. Ibid. The Smaller Vasa measures about fourteen inches in length.
1904. Times, 30 Jan., 10/2. The collection of foreign birds is good, and consists, among others, of … macaws, a black vasa parrot, and a hoopoe.
