172 PSITTACUS ERITHACUS. 



fourthly, the left may alone be developed, as in the Passeres. The first of 

 the four conditions is only found in the Old-World Parrots ; and the last 

 two are restricted to the Cacatuinse. Psittacus erithacus belongs to the 

 second division, the right carotid running normally, whilst the left runs up 

 the side of the neck, together with the left pneumogastric nerve and jugular 

 vein." 



In another elaborate article (P. Z. S. 1874, p. 586), Mr. Garrod gives a 

 list of Parrots with two carotids (the left being superficial), an ambiens 

 muscle (the tendon of which crosses the front of the knee-capsule from above 

 downwards and outwards, and ultimately forms part of the flexor perforans 

 digitorum), a furcula, and an oil-gland. In this the Psittaci are included. 



Mr. J. G. Keulemans has given a beautiful Plate of this Parrot in his 

 'Natural History of Cage-birds,' vol. i. p. 1. As, therefore, it was not 

 desirable to repeat that, I have instead had a faithful portrait taken of the 

 individual of this species (^Psittacus erithacus) which has attained the honour 

 (unique as respects the feathered tribe) of a resting-place, in post-Reformation 

 times, in Westminster Abbey, where it may now be seen by the side of its 

 mistress, the Duchess of Richmond, and where I recommend my readers to 

 go and look at it. In Part I. p. 30, I spoke of " this bird's effigy;" but 

 I should have said the bird itself. Cassell mentions a case of a grey 

 Parrot which died of grief at parting with its master ; and the one here 

 represented survived her Grace only a few days, after living wdth her for 

 forty years. 



This Duchess of Richmond is buried in the Richmond vault, in the 

 southern side of the central aisle of Henry VII. 's chapel in the Abbey. 

 Her effigy, at her own request, was placed close by her after death, as well 

 done in "wax as could be," "under crown glass and none other," in the 

 robes she wore at the Coronation of Queen Anne (Stanley's ' Memorials of 

 Westminster Abbey,' pp. 213 & 343, edit. 1868). According to Burke's 

 ' Peerage,' her Christian names were Frances Sophia, though, as will 

 presently appear, she is sometimes mentioned as Frances Theresa. Her 



