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its flight, which is generally short, but very rapid. It is rarely 
found far from water, which it usually frequents twice a day. It 
feeds on seeds and berries, sometimes also on the young shoots of 
trees and plants.” 
General colour both above and below smoky-brown, the wings 
and tail rather darker; sides of face greyish, the ear-coverts 
decidedly inclining to silvery-grey; lower back, rump, and upper 
tail-coverts, fine blue; smaller wing-coverts forming a shoulder 
patch, edge of wing, and under wing-coverts, yellow; thighs, 
yellow ; vent and under tail-coverts, washed with blue; bill and feet, 
dark horn colour ; iris, orange. Mr. Andersson gives the following 
remarks on the yariation of plumage in this bird :—“ Messrs. 
Strickland and Sclater state that the blue on the upper and under 
tail-coverts is wanting in the female; but I have now lying before 
me more than one individual of that sex in which this blue plumage 
is present. I have, however, examined others in which it was 
absent, but which, in all other respects, appeared to be adult ; whilst 
in other quite young specimens, I have found the rump and the 
upper tail-coverts nearly as blue as in the adult; and I have also 
specimens in which the blue is present both above and below, but 
which have none of the usual orange-yellow on the elbow or on the 
thigh, but only on the under wing-coverts. Whether or not these 
variations are merely accidental, I have been unable to decide.” 
Total length, 8°5 inches; wing, 5°6; tail, 3:1; tarsus, 0°5. 
Fig. Gray, P. Z. 8. 1848, pl. 5. 
179. Psrrracus FUSCICAPILLUS. East African Parrot. 
This seems to be as Dr. Kirk remarks, the most common of the 
Parrot tribe in Eastern Tropical Africa, and it has been found at 
various places from Uzaramo southwards to the Zambesi region ; 
here Dr. Kirk says it is called “ Goe,” and he states that it is “ usually 
found in small flocks or in pairs; feeds on fruits, such as figs, &., 
but also eats native millet and maize. Its clear scream may be 
heard at a great distance ! ” 
- General colour, above dull green; the quills externally shaded 
with obscure bluish green ; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts, 
bright green, the latter inclining to yellow; head and neck all 
round olive brown; the sides of the face, grey, inclining to hoary 
on the ear-coverts; lores, fore part of cheeks and feathers above 
