PARROT. 1 15 



Said to inhabit Japan. — Mr. Willughby suspects the reality of this 

 species, as the description was merely taken from a painting sent from 

 Japan ; and no one pretends to have seen the bird. 



16— BANDED PARROT. 



La Perruche Ara a bandeau rouge, Levaill. pl. 17. 

 Banded Parrot, Shaw's Zool. viii. 404. 



LENGTH eleven or twelve inches. Bill pale ; plumage in 

 general green ; throat olive, the feathers edged with pale yellow ; 

 from thence to the vent paler olive, with similar edgings to the 

 feathers ; thighs and under tail coverts rufous ; across the forehead, 

 at the base of the upper mandible, a narrowish purple-brown bar, 

 slightly speckled with red ; legs pale. 



Inhabits Brazil : considered by Levaillant as a new species. 



17.— TABUAN PARROT.— Pl. XXII. 



Psittacus Tabuensis, Ind. Orn. i. 88. Gm. Lin. i. 317. 



' atropurpureus, Pompadour Parrot, Lev. Mus. pl. in p. 142. 

 Pompadour Parrot, Shaw's Zool. viii. 409. 

 Tab uan Parrot, Gen.Syn.i. 214. pl.7. Cook's last Voy.\. 335. 



LENGTH nineteen inches. Bill black ; irides orange ; forehead 



very dark purplish black; chin and throat dusky purple; at the 



base of the under mandible the feathers project a little over it, and 



are green ; the rest of the head, neck, breast, and belly, very deep 



purplish crimson; back, rump, and wing coverts, fine rich deep 



green ; on the lower part of the neck behind, between that and the 



back, a crescent of blue ; the bastard wing and prime quills fine 



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