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with deeper ; edge of the wing yellow ; under wing coverts red ; tail 

 four inches and three quarters in length, greatly cuneiform ; green 

 above, beneath dirty green ; legs blackish. 



Inhabits Amboina. — M. Levaillant informs us, that a pair of these 

 imported from Amboina, bred in the Menagerie of M. Van Blettem- 

 berg, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. The female made the 

 nest, lining it with feathers from her breast, and laid two white eggs ; 

 the young were hatched in nineteen days ; they were at first covered 

 with greyish down, and by degrees gained the green feathers, and the 

 blue on the head, and the parents continued to feed them for six 

 months. 



A.— Psittacus moluccanus, Gtn. Lin. i. 316. 50. /3. 

 Perruche des Moluques, Buf. vi. 150, PL enl. 753. 



a tete bleue, Levail Perr. i. 51. pi. 24, 25, 2G, 27. 



Blue-bellied Parrot, Shaw's Zool. viii. 413. 

 Orange-breasted Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 212. 14. A. 



Length ten inches. Bill reddish white ; head wholly blue ; on 

 the belly a spot of the same ; breast red, mixed with yellow, but 

 not edged with blue ; the tails of this and the last, when perfect, are 

 as long as the bodies. 



Inhabits the Molucca Islands. 



B. — Psittacus Novas Hollandiae, Gm. Lin. u 316. 50. y. 



Blue-bellied Parrot, Gen, Syn. i. 14. B. Brown III. pi. 7. Phill. Bot. Bay, pi. in 

 p. 152. Shaw's Zool. viii. 413. pi. 59. 



Length fifteen inches. Bill reddish ; orbits black ; head and throat 



dark blue, with a mixture of lighter blue ; hind head green ; towards 



the throat yellow green ; back and wings green ; under wing coverts 



crimson ; quills dusky, barred with yellow ; breast red, mixed with 



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