236 



PARR O T. 



origin 



as- Parrots are feldom known to traverfe far acrofs the 

 ocean ; neither was America at that time known. 



57- 

 Var.B. 



PURPLE- 

 RINGED 

 PARRAKEET. 



Description. 



'lace. 



La Perruche a Collier des Indes, Brif. orn. iv. p. 326. N° 56. 

 Bracelet Parrakeet from the Eafl Indies, Albin. ii. pi. 18. 



T ENGTH feventeen inches. The upper mandible orange 5 

 the lower black : irides yellow. It differs from the laft in 

 having the fkin round the. eyes brown : the crown of the head of 

 a blueilh green : the ring purple : and the fore part of the neck- 

 and bread: pale rofe-colour. 

 Inhabits the Eajt Indies, . 



37- 



Var.C. 

 DOUBLE- 

 RINGED 

 PARRAKEET. 



Plittacus Alexandria Lin, Syji.i. p. 142. N° 14. y. 



La Perruche a Collier de l'lfle de Bourbon, Brif. orn. iv. p. 328. N° 57. 



t. 27. f. 1. 

 La Perruche a double Collier, Buf. oif. vi. p. 143. 

 Perruche a Collier de l'lfle de Bourbon, PI. en/. 215. 



Description. T ENGTH thirteen inches and a half. Bill nearly as the 

 others : parts above green ; beneath yellow green : the ring 

 round the neck is rofe-colour, broadeft before ; above it the 

 plumage has a little mixture of blue green; under the throat rifes 

 a yellow ftripe 2 .which meets the rofe-coloured ring : on the fides 

 of the neck, above the ring, is a narrow black ftripe, which 

 reaches on each fide to the lower mandible : the tail. is. green 

 above, and yellow afh beneath ; the two middle feathers longer 

 than the outer ones by nearly four inches, 



6 . Inhabits 



