116 PARROT. 



deep blue; secondaries green, fringed with blue; tail cuneiform, the 

 two middle feathers eight inches long, full blue, deeply margined 

 with green, the ends blue; the outer ones six inches long, the 

 intermediate in proportion, all of them deep blue; shafts of all 

 black ; legs yellow. 



This beautiful species is found at Tongo Tabboo, and other 

 Friendly Isles in the South Seas, but far from common. 



The female said to be mostly green ; head, neck, and under parts 

 olive brown ; belly red, rump blue ; tail above green, beneath dusky; 

 but this sex has not always the blue on the rump, for in a living 

 specimen, in the possession of Mrs. King, December 1809, the rump 

 was green, the same as the back, and that this was a female is 

 certain, from the bird having laid three eggs since she had it : but 

 in her bird the head, neck, and under parts are purplish crimson. 

 This was brought from Fejee, or Bligh's Islands, and was only sixteen 

 inches in length. 



In another specimen the green was less brilliant, with some 

 mixture of reddish ; on the lower belly, thighs, and vent some 

 reddish purple ; this may probably be a young bird. 



In Cook's last voyage these birds are said to be of an indifferent 

 green on the back and wings, but surely this description must have 

 been taken from specimens not in good condition, as the green is 

 particularly vivid, and the purple, though deep, by no means sooty. 



18— SCARLET AND GREEN PARROT. 



Psittacus Tabuensis, Ind.Orn.l p. 88. 19. |3. 

 — ; — — — Zonarius, Zoned Parrot, Nat. Miscel. pi. 657. 



Grande Perruche a Collier, et Croupion bleues, Levail. Perr.'u 113. pi. 55. 56. 

 Tabuan Parrot, Pkill. Voy. pi. p. 153. Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 81. White's Voy. to Bot. 

 Bay, pi. in p. 16S. 169. Shaw's Zool. viii. 407. pi. 55. 



LENGTH twenty-four inches. Bill brown, upper mandible 

 tinged with red ; head, neck, and all beneath bright scarlet ; back • 



