214 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



This Parrot is a rare bird in the middle portion of 

 Uamara Land ; but further north, at Okamabute, it is 

 common, and also in the Lake-regions ; with the occa- 

 sional exception of a few stray individuals, it does not 

 occur further south than Omabonde, which may be said 

 to constitute its usual southern limit. Its habits and 

 notes closely resemble those of the succeeding species, 

 P. Rii;p])eUi. 



The irides are deep bright red-orange ; the bare skin 

 surrounding the eye is black ; the bill darkish horn- 

 colour, with a tinge of green ; the legs and toes greenish 

 black. 



Measui'ements of a male and a female : — 



[This species is subject^ in both sexes, to a variation of colour 

 in the plumage of the head, an irregular bar of pale yellow, 

 which transversely crosses the crown, being present in some 

 specimens and entirely absent in others. — Ed.] 



258. Poicephalus Rtippelli (Gray), lliippcll's Tarrot. 

 Psittacus Ri'qypvUi, Gray, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848, pi. 5. 

 Pveocephalus Riippelli, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Daniar., Coutr. 



Om. 18.52, p. 15G. 

 Psittacus liiippcIU, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 406. 

 Ph(eocepIialns RUppeUii, Ilartl. Orn. West-Africa's, No. 503. 

 Poicejjhalus Ruppellii, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 8280. 

 Psittacus Eucppelli, Sharpe's Cat. No. 109. 



This species is cominon in Damara Land, but is 



