124 PARROT. 



yellow ; belly fine blue ; thighs green and yellow ; tail cuneiform, 

 long ; the two middle feathers green, the others the same, but bright 

 yellow on the outer edges; legs dusky ; in some the thighs are dusky. 



Inhabits New-Holland — very numerous in Botany Bay — native 

 name Goo-reel. 



Sir Tho. G. Cullum, Bart, informs me that one of these birds, brought 

 from New-Holland in 1794, is now alive at his sister's, and that its 

 food, during that space of time, has been bread and water only — boiling 

 water is poured on some crumbs of bread, and after standing a little 

 while, put into a piece of cloth and squeezed dry — now and then an 

 almond* was given, but never any water. 



C— Blue-bellied Parrot, Gen. Syn. Sup. 59: C. White's Journ. p. 140. 



This differs in having five or six spots of red, tipped with yellow 

 on the scapulars, and the inner bend of the wing ; and the blue at the 

 nape bounded with reddish. 



This is also found in New-Holland, and both of them very nume- 

 rous in the neighbourhood of Botany Bay, as well as elsewhere. 

 Other deviations from the above varieties have also been noticed. 



* It may not be amiss to remark, that a Parrot from New-Holland, being very tame, 

 was permitted to be at large now and then in a sitting room, and in this state finding a few 

 bitter almonds within its reach, ate one or two, which caused its death. 



