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The late 0. E. Cressrvell—Parrots



blue, chestnut, and black, and they have noticeably forked tails, the

outer feather on each side being elongated and tapered. The following

description is that of a full-plumaged adult shot November 23, 1905.


Crown and nape, pale bluish-green with a pale brown forehead and

eye streak ; back and mantle, pale chestnut; lesser wing-coverts,

bright ultramarine blue ; middle coverts, Cambridge blue with a

greenish tinge ; cubitals, chestnut, like the back ; great coverts, clear

Cambridge blue ; basal halves of flight feathers the same ; distal halves,

ultramarine with black inner edges; rump, bright ultramarine;

upper tail-coverts, also ultramarine but with Cambridge blue bases

and narrow tips. The two central tail feathers are, above, greenish-

grey ; the others (except the outer long ones) ultramarine at bases,

Cambridge blue at ends, the amount of light blue increasing from within

outwards ; the external feather on each side (3| inches longer than the

others) is Cambridge blue with the central shaft and whole of the last

3| inches black. Below : chin, pale brown ; cheeks and throat, greenish

blue streaked with lighter ; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts,

clear Cambridge blue ; under surface of tail like the upper, but the light

blue extends rather further ; under wing-coverts, bright Cambridge

blue ; under surface of flights like the upper, but the two blues are not

quite so clear in colour ; bill, black ; legs and feet, greyish olive ; irides,

burnt sienna ; length (to end of middle tail feathers), 12 inches.


{To be continued.)



PARROTS


By the late 0. E. Cresswell

(Communicated by Miss Frances Cresswell)


(Concluded from p . 107)


The best-known and most distinctive of a multitude of species are

the large Lemon-crested ; the lovely Leadbeater, with delicate pink

tints like crushed strawberries on a white ground, and a splendid

tricoloured crest of scarlet, orange, and white ; and the very common

and cheap Rose-crested bird, with grey body and pale pink head.

Then there is the peculiar and little-known Gang Gang, grey with



