114 PARROT. 



pale green, with a mixture of yellow ; throat, and neck before, 

 inclining to ash-colour ; wing coverts nearest the body dull red, the 

 others green ; quills green, edged with black ; tail thirteen inches 

 long, cuneiform; the two middle feathers nine inches and three 

 quarters longer than the two outer ones ; colour green, with brown 

 shafts ; the wings reach one-third on the tail ; legs reddish. 

 Inhabits Gingi, in the East Indies, but is not common. 



A. — Length eighteen inches. Bill blood red, tip yellow; between 

 the nostrils and the eye bare, narrow, and ash-coloured ; plumage 

 pale green, inclining to yellow beneath ; on the wing coverts a long 

 oval streak of crimson ; at the hind part of which an obscure, narrow 

 pale ring ; tail very cuneiform ; the two middle feathers eight inches 

 long, the outer only two ; colour green ; the two middle ones plain, 

 the others with the inner webs greenish yellow ; legs yellow. 

 Inhabits India. — From the drawings of Sir J. Anstruther, Bart. 



15.— JAPONESE PARROT. 



Psittacus Japonicus, Ind. Orn, i. 86. Lin. i. 141. Gm. Lin. i. 315. Bris. iv. 362. Id. 



8vo. ii. 171. 

 Psitt. erythroehlor. rnacr. Rail, 34. Will. 77. Id. Engl. 116. §. 2. 

 La Perruche verte et rouge, Buf. vi. 159. 

 Japonese Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 209. Shaw's Zool. viii. 417. 



SIZE of the Alexandrine species. Bill and irides red ; plumage 

 green ; on each side of the head two blue spots, one before and the 

 other behind the eye ; throat ferruginous red ; from this part the 

 feathers are red at the tips, marked with longitudinal black lines ; 

 scapulars blue ; wing coverts with black shafts ; the two first prime 

 quills green, and the others deep blue, the shafts of all of them white ; 

 the two middle tail feathers green, with white shafts ; the others red, 

 with the shafts black. 



