PARROT. 



239 



La Perruche a tete rouge de Gingi, Brif. orn 



— PI. enlum. 264. 

 La Perruche a. tete rouge, Buf. oif. vi. p. 144 



Lev. Muf. 



iv. p. 346. N° 65. t. 29 f. 2. 



T ESS than the common Parrakeet : total length eleven inches. 

 The bill is reddiih : the head red, with a fhade of light 

 blue; partaking moft of this colour at the hind head : the chin 

 is black, narrowing into a flender line from the corners of the 

 mouth to the hind head ; beneath the black is another flender 

 line of a very pale green, both making a kind of collar : the reft 

 of the plumage is green ; the under parts have a tinge of yellow : 

 on the wing coverts is a dull red fpot : the tail is fix inches and a 

 quarter long ; green above, with the inner margins yellow ; the 

 outer feather fhorter than the middle ones by four inches : legs 

 and claws grey. 



Inhabits Gingi, in the Eafi Indies. 



39- 

 BLOSSOM- 

 HEADED 

 PARRAKEET, 



Description, 



Placi. 



La Perruche de Bengale, Brif. orn. iv. p. 348. N° 66. ?o. 



La petite Perruche a tete coleur de rofe a longs brins, Buf. oif. vi. p. 154. Var. A. 



La Perruche a tete rouge de l'Ifle de Lucon, Sen. Fey. p. 79. t. 42. R0S ^S?q DED 



Perruche de Mahe, Pl.enI.8S8. PARRAKEET. 



Parrakeet from Bengal, Albin. iii. p. 7. t. 14. 

 Rofe-headed ring Parrakeet, Ediv. glean, 't. 233. 



gIZE of the laft : length ten * inches. The upper mandible 



pale yellow; the lower dull brown or black: cere brownifh : 



crown and cheeks rofe-colour : hind head blue : the throat, and 



• Buffon fays, twelve inches. 



ring 



Description. 



