120 PARROT. 



21— BAUER'S PARROT. 



Psittacus Baueri, Lin. Trans, xvm. p. 118. 



LENGTH fifteen inches. Bill pale ; head and part of the neck 

 black ; cheeks, throat, and feathers which fall over the lower man- 

 dible, more or less ultramarine blue ; neck behind dun yellow, nearly 

 in shape of a crescent ; general colour of the rest of the plumage 

 above, fore part of the breast, and the two middle tail feathers green, 

 deepest on the breast ; from the last to the thighs yellow ; thighs and 

 vent pale green ; the second quills ultramarine blue ; primaries black, 

 edged with grey; under wing eoverts verditer blue; the tail cuneiform, 

 eight inches long ; the two middle feathers green with blue ends ; 

 the others the colour of verditer, or paler blue ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — The description taken from a specimen 

 at Mr. Thompson's, Little St. Martin's Lane, London : one of these 

 is also in the Linnaean Museum ; is said to have been brought from 

 Memory Cove, on the South side of New-Holland. 



21 .—AZURE-HEADED PARROT. 



Psittacus Indicus, Ind. Orn. i. 8G. Bris. app. 129. Id. 8vo. ii. 155. 



— Alexandri, Lin. i. 142. Gm. Lin. i. 321. 14. s. 



Pevruche a Epaulettes jaunes, Levaill. Per. i. 122. pi. 61. 



— a tete d'Azur, Buf. vi. 148. 



Blue-headed Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 327. 37. D. Edw. pi. 292. Shaw's Zool. viii. 427. 



SIZE of a Pigeon. Bill red ; eyes in a naked flesh-coloured 

 skin ; irides orange ; head and throat fine blue ; rest of the plumage 

 green, paler beneath ; quills cinerous, edged with blue ; on the wing 



