224 PSITTACID^ PCfiOCEPHALUS 



genus have been described ; they are confined to the Ethiopian 

 region and five out of the fourteen are South African. 



Key of the Species. 



A. Eump green. 



a. Larger, wing more than 8'0 ; edge of wing 



vermilion. 



a'. Head and neck olive-yellow P. roftasiMS, p. 224. 



h^. Head and neck silvery-grey P.fuscicolUs,Tp. 226. 



b. Smaller, wing about 6'0 ; edge of wing green 



Kke the upper surface P. fuscicapillus, p. 226. 



B. Eump blue. 



a. Breast greenish-blue contrasting with the 



throat, usually a yellow band across the 



crown P. meyeri, p. 228. 



6. Breast slaty-brown like the throat P. rueppelli, J , p. 229. 



C. Bump smoky-brown like the rest of the upper 



surface P. rueppelli, ^,^.229. 



484. Poeocephalus robustus. Levaillant's Parrot. 



Psittacus robustus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 344 (1788) ; Sharpe, ed. 

 Layard's B. S. Afr. p 194 (1876) ; Eolub Sr Pelzelm,, Orn. Sud- 

 Afr. p. 160 (1882) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 249 [Mashonaland] . 



Psittacus levaUlanti, Lath. Syn. Suppl. p. xxii (1802) ; Layard, B. S. 

 Afr. p. 230 (1867). 



Le Perroquet ifranges sourci, Levaill. Perroq. ii, p. 91, pis. 130-1 (1805). 



Pionus robustus, P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 22 [Cathcart]. 



Pionias robustus, Finsch, Papag. ii, p. 475 (1868). 



Poeocephalus robustus, Ourney, Ibis, 1873, p. 255 [Natal] ; Salvad. 

 Cat. B. M. XX, p. 363 (1891) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 138 (1896) ; Wood- 

 ward Bros. Natal Birds, p. 125 (1899). 



" Isikweyiya " of Amaxosa (Stanford). " Isikwenene " of the Zulus 

 (Woodward). 



Description. Adult. — Head and neck all round olive-yellow with 

 brown centres to some of the feathers especially on the forehead, 

 and a reddish tinge on the chin ; the forehead sometimes red 

 sometimes like the rest of the crown ; lores black ; mantle, 

 scapulars, wings and tail dusky-black. Some of the feathers 

 especially of the mantle and wing- coverts edged and tipped with 

 dull green ; band round edge of the wing and lower tibial plumes 

 vermilion ; rump and upper tail-coverts, lower breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts bright grass-green ; upper under wing-coverts dark 

 green, lower slaty. 



