PARROT. 



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27 —BLACK CROWNED PARROT. 



Psittacus atricapillus, Ind. Orn.i. 88. Gib. Lin. i. 317. 

 Ara moluccensis varia, Bris. iv. 197. Id. 8vo. ii. 97. 

 Psittacus Loeri dictus, Seba i. t. 38. f. 4. Klein, p. 25. 16. 

 La grande Perruche a bandeau noir, Bvf. vi. 158. 

 Seban Lory, Shaw's Zool. viii. 459. 

 Black-crowned Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 213. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Upper part of the head black ; neck 

 surrounded with a collar of green and red ; back, rump, scapulars, 

 wing and tail coverts, deep blue ; throat, fore neck, and breast light 

 red ; the rest beneath deep green, varied with red ; quills deep blue; 

 tail greatly cuneiform, six inches and three quarters long, green; 

 beneath red, and bordered with black. 



Inhabits the Molucca Islands. — Seba says, from Papua. 



28— PAPUAN LORY. 



Psittacus Papuensis, Ind. Orn. i. 88. Gm. Lin. i. 317, 

 Petit Lori Papou, Sen. Voy. 175 t. 111. Levail. pi. 77. 

 Papuan Lory, Gen. Syn. i. 215. Skatv's Zool. viii. 440. pi: 64. 



SIZE of the Lory Parrakeet ; length sixteen inches. Bill hooked, 

 sharp, and red ; head, neck, and breast, bright carmine red ; on the 

 back of the head a blue spot; beneath two crescents of black ; 

 wings green, short, the green colour extending across the middle of 

 the back, forming there a large spot ; the rest of the back to the 

 tail bright red, with a streak of blue down the middle ; on each side 

 of the wing, just at the base, an oblong yellow spot ; and just above 

 each thigh a large one of the same colour ; belly, and under tail 



