PARROT, 267 



Inhabits the Philippine Islands, particularly Luconia, in the 

 neighbourhood of Manilla, there called Coulacissi : it often sleeps 

 suspended by one foot ; and is fond of the fresh juice of the cocoa- 

 tree called Callou.* 



In the collection of the late Sir A. Lever, were two birds, probably 

 male and female ; one answers to the description above, but the 

 yellow on the back is scarcely visible : tail green ; the upper coverts 

 crimson, and as long as the tail itself: the other bird mostly green ; 

 on the throat a yellow spot ; the tail and its coverts as in the former ; 

 bill and legs pale. Osbeckf met with this species at Java, where 

 it is called Parkiki. When in a cage it whistles very seldom, and 

 commonly grows quite sullen ; will feed on boiled rice, one having 

 been fed with it in the passage from Java to Gottenburgh. Toreen 

 saw some at Queda,$ with a blue spot on the head ; but the general 

 colour was green, and the throat and upper side of the tail appeared 

 red ; bill black. He adds, we observed, that " their nests were 

 " remarkable for their exceeding tine texture, but did not see the 

 " birds ; if they had a different construction, the monkies would b§ 

 " very mischievous to them, but now before they can get to the 

 "' opening, the lowest part breaks in pieces, and the visitor falls to 

 " ground without any danger to the young birds." || The one found 

 in Java, said to be only four inches and a half long ; the wing- 

 beneath blue, excepting an exterior margin of black, the outer 

 larger half of the quills being black, the interior blue ; hence, the 

 extremity of the wings is also black. § It is called in Java Silindit 

 and Silinditun. 



* This is a whitish liquor that flows from the ends of the branches when the fruit is fresh 

 cut oft'. The Indians fasten a hollow cane to that part of the branch, that they may collect 

 this liquor, which is very agreeable before it runs into fermentation, tasting much like cider. 

 Hist, des Ois. 



t Voy. vol. i. 155. J In the Straits of Malacca. || I suspect that these nests were 

 not those of the Parrot Genus, but rather of one of the Gros-beak kind. § Lin. Trans. 



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