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ROSE-RINGED PARRAKEET. 



Palaornis torquatus^ VIGORS. 



VIGNETTE. 



Bright green ; bluish on the tail ; head surrounded with a 

 black collar, margined by a ring of rose-coloured red ; 

 hinder parts of the head, nape, and cheeks tinged with blue ; 



. upper mandible red ; lower blackish. 



Perruche a collier couleur de rose, Buff. PL Enl. 551, male. 

 Psittaca torquata, Briss. Om. iv. p. 323 Perruche a 

 collier rose, Le VaUL i. pi. 22, male, 23, female Palaeornis 

 torquatus, Vig. Zool. Journ. ii. p. 50. 



THE graceful form and delicate beauty of this ele- 

 gant bird has long rendered it a favourite with those 

 who have a predilection for living birds ; and it is 

 consequently one of the most common species seen 

 in confinement. Its discordant screams, however, 

 will always render it a very noisy, if not an objec- 

 tionable, inmate of the drawing-room. 



The Rose-ringed Parrakeet is one of the few birds 

 of Senegal whose geograpic distribution extends from 

 east to west. Of four specimens in very perfect 

 plumage now before us, three are from "Western 

 Africa and one from Madras ; between the three 

 first of these, there is no difference whatever in size ; 



