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F A R R O T. 



38. 



MUSTACHOE 

 PARRAKEET. 



Description* 



Place. 



38. 



Var. A. 



BEARDED 



PARRAKEET. 



Description. 



La Perruche a Mouftaches, Buf. oif. vi. p. 149. 

 Perruche de Pondichery, PL enl. 517. 

 Lev. Muf. 



HPHIS is about eleven inches in length. The forehead, from 

 one eye to the other, is black : from the under jaw on each 

 fide arifes a black ftripe, which paffes to the fides of the throat, 

 where it is wider than at its origin, and appears like a mufta- 

 choe ; the reft of the face is white and blueifh : the back is of a 

 deep green : the wing coverts are marked with yellow ; and the 

 quills are deep green : the breaft is the colour of lilac : the tail is 

 about half the length of the bird ; above green ; beneath ftraw- 

 colour. 



This, according to Buffon, has not been mentioned before. 



Inhabits Pondicherry. 



T ENGTH from the bill to the rump feven inches. Bill red ; 

 the under mandible paleft : crown of the head green : be- 

 tween the bafe of the bill and the eyes cheftnut : from the noftrils 

 to the eye a' line of brown : from under the chin fprings a ftreak 

 of black, pafhng downwards on each fide a little way, like a beard 

 or whifker, half an inch broad : nape of the neck bloffom-colour : 

 general colour of the reft of the body green, paleft on the under 

 parts : the quills dufky, edged with blue : legs dufky : the tail 

 was imperfect. 



In the mufeum of Dr. W. Hunter, but from whence unknown. 



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