264 



PARROT. 



4- SOUTHERN 

 BROWN 

 PARROT. 



Description. 



Place. 



Lev. Muf. 



QIZE not much lefs than a Crow : length fixteen inches. The 

 bill is very large, hooked, and of a blue black : a round bare 

 afh-coloured fkin furrounds the eyes: the whole top of the head 

 pale afh-colour: round the lower mandible, throat, and fore part 

 and fides of the neck, of a cheftnut red ; the middle of the fea- 

 thers paleft : over the ears rufly yellow : the hind head and back 

 part of the neck deep afh-colour and pale mixed : back, wings, 

 and tail, greenifh afh-colour, fomewhat gloffed with copper : the 

 margins of the feathers darkeft : from the breaft to the vent cheft- 

 nut red ; the margins deepeft : the tail beneath is of the fame co- 

 lour j it is pretty even at the end ; at the tip of each feather the 

 Ihaft ftancTs out in a point: the tips of all the feathers are 

 brown : legs black. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. 



7»- 



BLACK 



PARROT. 



Pfittacus niger, Lin. Syft. i. p. 145. N° 29. 

 Le Perruche noir de Madagascar, Brif. orn. iv. p. 

 Le Vafa, ou Perroquet noir, Buf. oif. vi. p. 119. 

 Le Perroquet noir de Madagafcar, PI. enl. 500. 

 Black Parrot of Madagafcar, Ediv. i. t. 5. 



317. 



t. 4. 



N° 



S3- 



Description. 



T ENGTH thirteen inches and a half. Bill and cere of a light 

 fielh-colour : eyes in a bare white fkin : irides dark brown : 

 the whole head and body of a dufky blueifh black, except the 

 upper part of the wings, which is dark afh : the tail is five inches 

 and a half long : legs dull flefh-colour : claws black. The 



bill 



