2$2 



PARROT. 



long, 



legs reddifh : claws; 



"LACE. 



55- 

 LTNEATED 



PARROT. 



DlSCRIPTION. 



5 6. 



4- PACIFIC 

 PARRAKEET. 



DESCiUPTJON. 



PlACIi, 



and the outer ones very fhort 

 blackifh. 



Inhabits Brafrf. Edwards fays that this bird was a female ; 

 and that it laid five or fix eggs during its living in England^, 

 which was for the fpace of fourteen years. 



Pfittacus lineatus, Lin. Syft. iii. app, p. z2j.- 



CIZE of a Dove. General colour green, but palefl: beneath % 

 the quills are brown beneath, with the inner margins very 

 pale, which gives the appearance of the wing being longitudinally* 

 ftriped with narrow lines : tail cuneiform, a little longer than the 

 body. Linnaus gives no other account of it than the above, nor 

 does he mention its native place* 



Lev. Mufi 



ENGTH twelve inches. Bill of a filvery blue; end blacks 

 in fome, the forehead and half the crown ; in others, the fore- 

 head only, of a deep crimfon : behind each eye a fpot of the fame 

 colour : on each fide of the vent a patch of the fame r the- 

 plumage in general of a dark green,- paleft on; the under parts t 

 the tail is cuneiform ; the two middle feathers are five inches and 

 a half in length, the outer ones two inches and a half; upper 

 parts of it the fame green with the bodyj beneath afh-colour 1 

 the outer edge of the wing, as far as the middle of the quills, deep 

 blue ; the ends of the quills dufky : legs brown : claws black-. 



This is found at Otaheite *, but is not peculiar to that 



* M. Bougainvilte mentions " a very final! fort of Parrakeet, very Angular on 

 account of the various mixture of blue and red in the feathers ;" perhaps thefs 

 -zery birds. Boug, Voj. p. 247. Eng. edit. 



ifland. 1 



