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256. PoicephaluS robustus (Gmel.). Levaillant's Parrot. 



Le Perroquet & /ranges sougi, Levaillant's Perroqiiets, pi, 130. 

 PdUaeus Levaillantii, Layard's Cat. No. 469. 

 Poioephalvs robustus, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 8282. 

 Psittacus robustus, Sharpe's Cat. No. 173. 



I have only met with this Parrot in the country of 

 Ovaquenyama, where it is very abundant, but very wild 

 and difficult to approach; and in fact it is only to be 

 obtained in the morning and evening, when it comes to 

 the water during the dry season. 



The iris is dark brown ; the bill livid, but brown at 

 the extremity ; the tarsi are lead-coloured. 



Measurements of a male and a female : — 



[Mr. R. B. Sharpe possesses two specimens of this Parrot 

 obtained by Mr. Andersson, one in Damara Land and one in 

 Ondonga. — Ed.J 



257. Poicephalus Meyeri (Elipp.). Meyer's Parrot. 



Psittacus Meyeri, Riippell's Atlas, pi. 11. 



Pyocephalus Meyeri, Strickland & Sclater, Contr. Om. 1852, p. 166. 

 Psittacus Meyeri, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 406. 

 Pionias Meyeri, Finsch & Hartlaub's Vbgel Ost-Afrika's, p. 500. 

 Poicephalus Meyeri, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 8284. 

 Psittacus Meyeri, Sharpe's Cat. No. 170. 



