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 THE ROSE-HEADED P A R R A K E E T. 



GENERIC character: 



Bill hooked. Upper mandible moveable. 

 Nostrils round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 

 Tongue flcfliy, broad, blunt at the end. 



1-EGS (hort. Toes formxd for climbing, viz. two forward and two back- 

 ward. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Long-tailed green Parrakeet, with deep rofe-coloured head ovcrcaft with 

 blue, with a narrow collar of black beneath the head. 



Bloflbm-headed Parrakeet. Var. A. Rofe-headed Ring Parrakeet. 



La.'b. Sj'fiops. I. p. 239, 



THIS beautiful bird in its general appearance hears fo near a refemblancc 

 to feme of the fmaller varieties of the Pfittacus Alexandri, or Ring 

 Parrakeet, that it might almoft be confidered as rather belonging to one of 

 thefe than as ipecifically diftinft. It is however regarded as a diftind: fpecies 

 both by the Count de Buffon ? and Mr. Latham. 



The upper mandible is orange-coloured ; the lower blackifh : the front and 



cheeks are of a fine rofy red -, which colour on tlie remainder of the head 



No. rV. C c gradually 



