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PARROT. 



-Place. This inhabits the iQand of Feejee, in the Pacific Ocean, from 



whence it is brought into 1'ongo-taboo and Otaheite, for the fake of 

 the red and yellow feathers in the plumage. It is alfo now and 

 then feen alive and tame in 'Tongo-tahoo *. Its manners are foii- 

 taryi". This bird, from the defcription, appears not unlike the 

 Blue-crefted Parrot Xi but as the above is greatly fuperior in fize, 

 and has an even tail, I rather fuppofe it to be a dillindt fpecies. 



146. 



BLUE-RUMPED 



PARRAKEET. 



Description. 



Place. 



Le petit Perruche de Malacca, Son. Voy. Lid. ii. p. 212. 



CiZE of the common Parrakeet. Bill violet grey : irides red : 

 forehead blue : head, neck, and upper part of the breaft, grafs- 

 green : lower part of the breaft and belly yellowifli green : rump 

 blue : wing coverts pale green ; fecond quills deep green ; prime 

 quills blue on the outer webs as far as the middle ; the reft of a 

 deep green : under wing coverts crimfon : tail deep green, yel- 

 lowifli beneath : legs brown. 

 Inhabits Malacca. 



147. 



RED-NAPED 



PARRAKEET. 



Description. 



IZEfmall. General colour of the plumage green: on the 

 forehead over the eye crimfon : at the back part of the head a 

 crefcent of the fame : the throat, fore part of the neck, and breaftj^ 

 are alfo crimfon : tail plain green. 



I defcribed this from the drawings of Colonel Bavies, but know 

 not from whence it came. 



* At Otaheite and the Friendly ifles. Parrots In general are called Kakaa ; and: 

 the Parrakeets, Hainga.—^Cooh, Laft Voy, App. ^ 



t Mr. Anderfori'i MS. , J Syn, i. p. 254. 



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