130 PARROT. 



32— JAY-WINGED LORY. 



SIZE of the Blue-capped Lory. Bill yellow, inclining to red 

 in the middle ; top of the head, as far as the middle of the crown, 

 black, the rest of it fine purple red ; general colour of the plumage 

 crimson red ; at the bend of the wing mixed blue and black, as in 

 the Jay; on the breast an obscure yellow crescent; quills dusky, 

 some of them yellow on the middle of the inner webs ; tail much 

 rounded, or rather cuneiform, colour deep crimson, with the end 

 brown, as in the Gueby Lory ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits Van Diemen's Land, at the southern extremity of New- 

 Holland. In the collection of Mr. Harrison. 



33— VAN-DIEMEN'S PARROT. 



Psittacus flavigaster, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 116. ?. 



LENGTH sixteen inches. Bill three quarters of an inch, pale 

 or nearly white ; forehead as far as the eye scarlet ; the crown for 

 nearly one inch and a half yellow, brighter before than behind, 

 where it changes into greenish yellow ; below the eye an orange red 

 streak ; cheeks and chin deep blue; the rest of the plumage, for the 

 most part green, the feathers edged with deeper green ; rump and 

 upper tail coverts edged deeply with yellow green ; hind part and 

 sides of the neck, breast, belly, and vent greenish yellow ; shoulders 

 near the body almost black, from them a pale lilac band, one inch 

 broad, and near four long ; pinion and front of the wing half way 

 fine blue ; quills black-blue, edged with grey ; under wing coverts 

 blue ; tail cuneiform ; the two middle feathers brownish green, and 

 pointed ; the others pale blue, with white tips, and each shorter than 

 the other by about an inch ; legs black. 



