3i6 



PARROT. 



Femaie. 

 Place, 



tail rounded ; near the end a broad bar of black : legs and clatp 

 hoary. 



The female has a plain green head, otherwife like the male. 



Inhabits Madagafcar, and perhaps the ifle of Mauritius, if I am 

 right in the bird mentioned by M. St. Pierre *. 



123. 

 BLACK- 

 WINGED 

 PARRAKEET, 



3ssCZ.I¥TlOV+ 



P&ACE, 



La petite Perruche de l'ifle de Lucon, So*. Voy. p. 78. t. 41. 

 La Perruche aux ailes variees, Buf. oif. vi. p. 172. 

 Petite Perruche de Batavia, PL enk 791. f. 1 = 

 Black-winged Parroquet, Brown's llluft. t. 8. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



T ENGTH fix inches. Bill duiky brown : front, and hind part 

 of the head, yellowifli green : crown and cheeks pale blueifh 

 green j as are the breaft, belly, and thighs : the back, wing 

 coverts, and prime quills, black : fecondaries pale yellow, tipped 

 with a beautiful blue : coverts of the tail dark green ; upper part 

 of the tail fine lilac ; the two middle feathers plain, all the reft 

 marked with a black bar near the end ; the ends of all the feathers 

 are like wedges, or lozenge-fhaped : under tail coverts as long as 

 the tail : legs dufky. This defcribed from the fpecimen in the 

 Britijh Mufeum. 



M. Sonnerat fays, that the irides are reddilh yellow, as well as 

 the bill ; bat in the plate he makes all the tail feathers barred ; 

 with black, which is not the cafe, either in the fpecimen at the 

 Britijh Mufeum or that at Leicejler-houfe. 



Inhabits Batavia and Luzonia. 



* A green Parrakeet, " with a grey head, as large as a Sparrow, and not to> 

 be tamed." Voyage to Mauritius, tranilated by J. Parifi, 1775. 



La 



