224 PSI'lTACID^ pceocephaLus 



genus have been described ; they are confined to the Ethiopian 

 region and five out of the fourteen are South African. 



Key of the Species. 



A. Kump green. ' 

 a. Larger, wing more than 8'0 ; edge of wing 



vermilion. 



«.'. Head and neck olive-yellow P. ro6its^i(s, p. 224. 



6'. Head and neck silvery-grey P. fuscicollis, -p. 226. 



h. Smaller, wing about 6*0 ; edge of wing green 



like the upper surface P. fascicajnllus, p. 226, 



B. Rump blue. 



a. Breast greenish-blue contrasting with the 



throat, usually a yellow band across the 



crown P. meyeri, p. 228. 



h. Breast slaty-brown like the throat P. ruepioelU, ? , p. 229. 



C. Rump smoky-brown lilie the rest of the upper 



surface P. rue])2}elli, ^,p. 229. 



484. Poeocephalus robustus. Levaillanf s Parrot. 



Psittacus robustus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 344 (1788) ; Sharpe, ed. 



LayarcVs B. S. Afr. p 194 (1876) ; Holub ^' Pelzelv, Orn. Siid- 



Afr. p. 160 (1882) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 249 [Mashonaland] . 

 Psittacus levaillanti, Lath. Syn. Suiypl. p. xxii (1802) ; Layard, B. S. 



^//•. p. 230(1867). 

 Le Perroquet afranges sourci, Levaill. Perroq. ii, p. 91, pis. 130-1 (1805). 

 Pionus robustus, P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 22 [Cathcart]. 

 Pionias robustus, Finsch, Papag. ii, p. 475 (1868). 

 PcEOcephalus robustus, Gurney, Ibis, 1873, p. 255 [Natal]; Salvad. 



Cat. B. M. XX, p. 363 (1891) ; Shelley, B. Afr.i,-p. 138 (1896) ; TVood- 



ward Bros. Natal Birds, p. 125 (1899). 

 " Isikweyiya " of Amaxosa (Stanford). " Isikwenene " of the Zulus 

 (Woodward). 



Descriptio7i. Adult. — Head and neck all round olive-yellow with 

 brown centres to some of the feathers especially on the forehead, 

 and a reddish tinge on the chin ; the forehead sometimes red 

 sometimes like the rest of the crown ; lores black ; mantle, 

 scapulars, wings and tail dusky-black. Some of the feathers 

 especially of the mantle and wing- coverts edged and tipped with 

 dull green ; band round edge of the wing and lower tibial plumes 

 vermilion ; rump and upper tail-coverts, lower breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts bright grass-green ; upper under wing-coverts dark 

 green, lower slaty. 



