PARROT. 119 



20— BLUE-HEADED PARROT. 



Piittacus cyanocephalus, Ind. Orn. i. 86. Lin. i. 141. Gm. Lin. i. 316. Bris.'w. 359. 



t.19. f.2. Id. Svo. i. 140. Gerin.n. 1. 129. 

 Perruche a tete bleue, Buf.vi. 145. PI. enl. 192. 

 Blue-headed Parrot, Gen.Syn.i. 211. Ster'* Zoof. viii. 427? 



LENGTH eleven inches and a half. Upper mandible yellow, 

 with a pale cinereous tip ; the lower plain ash -colour ; eyes in a 

 naked, yellowish skin ; plumage above green ; beneath yellow green ; 

 forehead inclining to red ; the head blue ; throat violet, tending to 

 ash-colour ; sides of the neck luteous ; neck behind, back, and 

 scapulars green ; lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts 

 shining green ; neck before yellow green, changing to yellow at the 

 sides ; beneath from the breast greenish yellow ; wing coverts green ; 

 quills green, inner webs and tips deep ash, beneath paler ash-colour ; 

 the shafts black, but that of the first feather whitish ; tail cuneiform ; 

 the two middle feathers green, with bluish ends ; the next the same, 

 but yellow within ; the four outer green without, and luteous within ; all 

 but the two middle ones tipped with yellow ; and the whole beneath 

 yellowish ash-colour, with the shafts black above, and white beneath ; 

 the outer feathers shorter than the two middle by four inches ; legs 

 bluish ; claws grey. 



Inhabits the East Indies. 



A. — A variety of this had no red on the forehead ; a longish ; 

 dull, crimson spot on the wing coverts : this was called Twiah Totah* 

 in India drawings. 



* Totah or Toto is general name for the Parrot tribe in India. 



