118 PARROT. 



forepart of the neck marked with dull red crescents, from the margins 

 of the feathers being of that colour; the rest of the under parts fine 

 crimson ; lower part of the back purplish blue ; tail cuneiform ; the 

 two middle feathers deep green, the rest black ; legs black. 



This also inhabits New-Holland, and is probably a female, or 

 young bird, in its progress towards perfection. — In the Collection of 

 Gen. Da vies. 



19— AMBOINA RED PARROT. 



Psittacus Amboinensis, Ind.Orn.i. 86. Lin.i, 141. Gm. Lin.i. 316. Bris.'ir. 378. 



t.28, 2. 7d.8vo.ii. 146. 

 Le Lori Penuche tricolor, Bitf. vi. 138. 

 Loro de Banda azul, Gabin. de Madrid, ii. p. 9. lam. 40. 

 Perruche rouge d'Amboiue, PL enl. 240. 

 Amboine red Parrot, Gen. Sijn.'x, 210: Shaufs Zool. viii. 407. var. 



A LITTLE bigger than a Turtle ; length fifteen inches and a 

 half. Bill red, with a black tip ; head, neck, and all beneath fine 

 scarlet ; back, rump, upper tail, lesser under wing coverts, and edge 

 of the wing fine blue ; under tail coverts violet in the middle, 

 surrounded with red ; greater quills deep green on the outer edges 

 and tips ; all of them blackish beneath, and within ; the two middle 

 tail feathers nine inches and a half long, violet brown ; the rest 

 shorten by degrees, are the'same on the outer edges, the inner blackish; 

 the two exterior edged with red on the inner margins, and are shorter 

 by four inches than the middle ones ; legs and claws red, 



Inhabits Amboina, and seems much allied to the last. 



A variety of this, in a drawing, had the back and wings fine 

 green ; adjoining the band of the wing a few crescents of fine blue ; 

 rump blue ; probably a young bird. 



