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10. 
GROUND 
PARROT, 
DESCRIPTION. 
Pyar aR! * RYO ant, 
back andrump pale green: fhoulders black: lefler wing coverts 
pale blue; beneath deep blue: greater quills dufky, with the outer 
margins deep blue: the fecondaries edged with pale green, like the 
feathers of the back; all the greater quills except the outer one, and 
fix or feven of the inner fecondaries marked with a tranfverfe pale 
yellow fpot about the middle, on the inner web: tail blue; the two 
middle feathers of one colour, the others have the ends pale and 
nearly white. 
Inhabits New Holland, where it is a common fpecies. 
Phitt. Alexandri, Ind. Orn. i. p. 97- 46.—Spalowk. Vog. 3. tab. 8. 
Dourra, Sonnini, Trav. (Engl. ed.) v. 3. p. $3. 
Alexandrine Parrot, Gen. Syz. i. p. 234. 37+ 
IN Spalow/ki's figure, the ring round the throat is very broad, with 
no red on the wings or breatt. 
Sonnini affirms that this fpecies is brought in numbers froma 
Nubia to Cairo, and that its Arabian name is Dourra. 
Pfittacus formofus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 103. 60. 
Ground Parrot, Lev. Mu/: p. 219. t. 53.—Nat. Mic. vol. 7. pl. 228.— 
Zool. of N. Holland, p. 9. pl. 3. 
Black-fpotted Parakeet of Yan Diemen’s Land, D’Entreca/teux’s Voy, ii. p. 
47. pl. x. 
N fize this is rather fmaller than the Pexnantian Parrot: the bill 
and legs are black: the general colour of the plumage green on 
the upper parts, each feather banded with black and yellow: the 
crown and nape are marked with numerous longitudinal black 
ftreaks: the forehead fine orange colour, nearly fcarlet; all beneath 
the body the plumage is yellow, croffed with numerous waved 
blackifh bands: the under part of the wing cinereous grey, with a pale 
broad 
