PSITTACUS murinus, 

 Grey -breasted Parakeet. 



Generic Character. — See PI. 1 



Specific Character. 

 P. viridis, gcnis, auribus, guldque cinereis ; vertice, remigibus rectri- 



ciumque murginibus sub-cceruleis. 

 Green ; sides of the head, ears, and throat, grey ; crown, quills, and 



end of the tail, bluish. 

 P. murinus. Gmelin. 1. 327. 7io. 80. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 101. 

 Grey-breasted Parrakeet. Lath. Syn. vol. 1,247. Gen. Zoo/, vol. viii. 



p. 456. 



1 HOSE of our readers who visited Leamington during the last 

 season, may have observed this noisy little creature uttering' 

 its discordant cries at the door of a small house near the 

 pump-room. I borrowed it for a day from the good woman 

 to whom it belonged, and thus made the drawing and descrip- 

 tion with the bird before me. 



Dr. Latham observes on this species, that excepting where 

 the grey colour pervades, " the rest of the body is ohve green, 

 excepting the quills, which are deep green ;" — this may be 

 the female. He adds a quotation from Pernetty, who de- 

 scribes a bird from Monte Video, something near this ; but 

 which, from having a very long tail, a flesh-coloured bill, &c. 

 may probably be distinct. 



The live bird could not be conveniently measured, but it is 

 rather larger than the red-shouldered Parrakeet, (figured at 

 pi. 62.) The skin round the eye white, and the irides hazel ; 

 the whole upper part of the plumage is a beautiful grass 

 green, changing according to the light into different shades ; 

 the top of the head, the quill feathers, and end of the tail, 

 greenish blue, in some lights appearing quite blue ; the sides 

 of the head, ears, and throat, as far as the breast, bluish 

 grey ; all the remaining under plumage yellowish green, with 

 a shade of orange in the middle of the body and vent ; bill 

 and legs dark grey ; this latter colour is so unusual in this 

 tribe, that I at first thought it indicated an imperfect plumage, 

 but 1 have now seen it at two different seasons of the year 

 without any variation whatever. It is probably a South Ame- 

 rican species. 



PI. 89. 



