PARROT. 2j£ 



Afta, alfo the neighbouring ifles, and Ceylon, ft is moft probable 

 that Alexander might mean this Parrot, as the laft illand his army 

 vifited was Ceylon, from whence therefore he might have had 

 them. 



I have received this from the Eaft Indies. 



La Perruche a Collier, Brif. orn. iv. p. 323. N°5J. 



La Perruche a Collier couleur de rofe, Buf. oif. vi. p. 152. — PL enl- 551. +. Var. A. 



Br. Muf. Uv. Muf. ROSE-RINGED 



PARRAKEET. 



¥ ENGTH fifteen inches and a quarter: fize of a Blackbird. Description. 



The upper mandible is blood red, with a black tip ; the 

 lower one black : irides yellow : eyes furrounded with a flefh- 

 coloured fkin : the general colour is pale green : throat black : 

 round the neck is a ring of a light rofe-colour : the hind head in- 

 clines to violet : tail nine inches long, and much cuneated, the 

 two middle feathers exceeding the outer ones by feven inches : 

 the legs are afh-coloured : claws grey brown. This bird, as far 

 as I have obferved, does not gain the ring round the neck the 

 firfl: year at leaft, as I have feen feveral which were quite plain 

 when they were at firfl: imported, and gained the ring at the next 

 year's moult. 



This bird is a native of Africa, and not of America, as M. Observation. 

 Briffon makes it : indeed it is frequently imported from various 

 parts of America and the Weft Indies, but has been firfl: carried to 

 thofe parts, by the fhips in the flave-trade, from Senegal. If this 

 fpecies be allowed to be the Parrot defcribed by Aldrovand (as 

 fome think) as one known both to the Romans and Greeks, the 

 circumftance mull be impoffible, if the bird was of American 



H h 2 origin : 



