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PARROT. 



The above was for feme time alive in the poOefrion of Lady 

 Read : now in good prefervadon in the Leverian Mufeum. Na- 

 tive place uncertain. ^ 



136. 

 DUBIOUS R. 



Description. 



137- 

 vORANGE-BEL- 

 LIED PARRA- 

 KKET. 



D-ESCR.1PT10N. 



138. 



PEREGRINE 



PARRAKEET. 



Description. 



Br. Mt,f. 



T ENGTH nine inches. Bill and legs pale horn-colour; from 

 the bafe to the eye, and round the iaft, bare, and of the fame 

 colour : head and chin green : the whole neck pale rufous : up- 

 per parts of the body and wings green ; under parts the fame, but 

 paler: the outer edge of the baftard wing, and quills, blue: 

 tail cuneiform, but fhort, the colour a yellowifh green •, the four 

 middle feathers blue at the ends, where they are pointed in ihapej 

 the four outer ones on each fide tipped with brown. 

 ^Native place uncertain. 



T ENGTH feven inches and a half; breadth twelve. Bill 

 yellowilh green : head, breaft, upper part of the body, and 

 leflef wing coverts, dull green ; greater coverts rich blue on the 

 exterior fides ; the interior dufky, marked with a white fpot : 

 lower belly orange: tail green; ends of the four outmoft feathers 

 fine yellow : legs greenifli. 



Native place uncertain. Communicated by Mr. Pennant, 



CIZE rather bigger than the Guinea Parrakeei : length eight 

 inches. Bill red : general colour of the plumage green, be- 

 neath inclining to yellow : the middle of the wing coverts pale 

 10 brown. 



