580 BIRDS. PIES. Parrot. 



Perruche fouris. Buff, oif. vi. 148. — Perruche a poitrine grife. PI. enl. n. 768. — Grey-breafted 

 Parrakeet. Lath. fyn. i. 247. n. 47. 



Inhabits Monteviedo. — This fpecies is of mild and docile manners ; it meafures ten inches in length, 

 of which the tail is a half: The bill, legs, and feet are grey, Mr Latham fays the bill is carnation red. 



406 58. Horned Parrot. — 50. Pfittacus cornutus. 81. 



Is green, with a fcarlet head, having two long extended feathers like horns. 



Pf. bifetis. Lath. ind. orn. i. 102. n. 56.— Horned Parrot. Cook, voy. ii. t. p. no. Lath. fyn. 

 i. 248. n. 48. t. 8. 



Inhabits New-Caledonia. — Is eleven inches long : The bill, legs, and feet are dark blackifh blue ; 

 the temples are orange yellow, the irides golden yellow, and a pale yellow, or ftraw coloured, collar 

 furrounds the neck ; the two elongated feathers from the crown of the head are each an inch and a 

 half long, of a dufky colour with red tips ; the wing coverts are dufky on their inner webs and at 

 the tips; the wing and tail quills have their exterior webs edged with blue; the rump is pale yellow; 

 the under furface of the tail is black. 



407 59. Caledonian Parrot. — 51. Pfittacus cakdonicus. 82. 



Is olive, with a greenifh yellow crown ; the tail quills have whitifh tips, and the outer 

 edges of the four outermoft are pale blue. 

 Pf. caledonicus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 102. n. 57. — Caledonian Parrot. Lath. fyn. i. 248. n. 49. 



Inhabits New-Caledonia. — Is eleven or twelve inches long : The bill is bluifh, with a pale tip; the 

 frontlet is red above, and blue next the bill ; the colour of the upper parts of the body has a green- 

 ifh, and of the under parts a yellowifh hue ; the legs and feet are dufky or blackifh blue. Both Dr 

 Gmelin and Mr Latham fufpecl this of being the female of the preceding. 



4°8 60. Zealandian Parrot. — 52, Pfittacus feelandicus. 83. 



Is brownifh-green ; with a dark purple front, greenifh tawny crown, and fcarlet rump r 



Pf. novae- feelandiae. Syft. nat. ed. Gm. i. 328. n. 83. — Pf. zealandicus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 102- 

 n. 58.— Red-rumped Parrot. Lath. fyn. i. 249. n. 50. 



Inhabits New-zealand. — Is fifteen inches long ; from the bafe of the bill a red ftreak extends 

 through each orbit; the tail quills are bluifh, the two middle ones having green edges; the bill is dark 

 blue, with a black tip ; a fmall number of the feathers on the crown are pale yellow, and on the 

 middle of the back there are a few of a pale rufly brown colour ; the temples are pale green ; the 

 belly is greenifh afh; the primary wing quills are brown, with blue edges; the fecondary wing quills, 

 and the feathers of the baflard wing are dufky, with green edges, pale rufty tips, and chefnut fhafts ; 

 the legs and feet are black. 



409 61. Hollandian Parrot.- — 53. Pfittacus hollandicus. 84. 



Is olive-brown ; with a yellow creft on the head, and an oblique white bar on the 



wings. 



Pf. 



