270 PARROT. 



223.— BLACK-WINGED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus melanopterus, Ind, Om.'u 132. Gm.Lin.i. 350. Nat. Misc. pi. 132. 

 Peruche a ailes variees de Batavie, Buf. vi. 172. PI. enl. 791, 

 Petite Perruche de Lucon, Son. Voy. 78. t. 41. 

 Perruche Javane, Lecail.u p. 131. pi. 69. 



Black-winged Parrakeet, Gen. Syn, i. 316. Brown III. pi. 8. Shaw's Zool. viii. 548. 

 pi. 83. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill brown ; front and hindpart of the 

 head, yellowish green ; crown, cheeks, breast, belly and thighs, 

 pale bluish green ; back, wing coverts, and quills black ; second 

 quills pale yellow, tipped with blue; tail coverts dark green ; upper 

 part of the tail fine lilac, the two middle feathers plain, the others 

 marked with a bar of black near the end ; the tips of all the feathers 

 like wedges, or lozenge-shaped ; under tail coverts as long as the 

 tail ; legs dusky. 



M. Sonnerat says, that the irides are reddish yellow, as well as the 

 bill ; but in his engraving of the bird, he makes all the tail feathers 

 crosed with a black bar, which is not the fact. 



Inhabits Batavia and Luzonia. 



224— COLLARED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus torquatus, Ind. Orn.\. 133. Gm.Lin.i. 351. 

 Petite Perruche a Collier, Son. Voy. 77. t. 39. Buf. vi. 173. 

 Collared Parrakeet, Gen. Syn.'\. 317. Shaw's Zool. viii. 551. 



SIZE of the Guinea Parrakeet. Bill and irides blackish grey ; 

 plumage green, paler beneath, and tinged with yellow ; at the back 

 of the head a broad band of light yellow, striped transversely with 

 black ; tail short, ending in a point ; that and the wings equal in 

 length ; legs dark grey. 



