P^ITTACID^. 213 



SCANSORES. 



PSITTACID^. 



256. Poicephalus robustus (Gmel.), Levaillant's Parrot. 



Le Perroquet a /ranges sougi, Levaillaut's Perroquets, pi. 130. 

 Psittacus Levaillantii, Layard's Cat. No. 459. 

 Poicephalus rohustus, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 8282. 

 Psittacus robustus, Sharpe's Cat. No. 173. 



I have only met with this Parrot in the country of 

 Ovaquenyama, where it is very abundant, but very wild 

 and difficult to approach ; and in fact it is only to be 

 obtained in the morning and evening, when it comes to 

 the water during the dry season. 



The iris is dark brown ; the bill livid, but brown at 

 the extremity ; the tarsi are lead-coloured. 



Measurements of a male and a female : — 



Male. Female, 



in. lin. in. lin. 



12 9 12 



9 8 



10 9 



2 10 2 10 



4 1 3 8 



[Mr. R. B. Sharpe possesses two specimens of this Parrot 

 obtained by Mr. Andersson, one in Daraara Laud and one in 

 Ondonga. — Ed.] 



257. Poicephalus Meyeri (Riipp.). Meyer's Parrot. 

 Psittacus Mci/cri, EiippeU's Alias, pi. 11. 



Paocephalus Mci/cri, iStric-klaud & Sclater, Contr. Om. 1852, p. 156. 

 Psittacus Meyeri, Chapmau's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 406. 

 Pionias Meyeri, Fiusch & Hartlanb's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, p. 500. 

 Poicephalus Meyeri, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 8284. 

 Psittacus Meyeri, Sharpe's Cat. No. 170. 



