PARROT. 131 



Inhabits New-Holland, said to have been brought from Van- 

 Diemen's Land. In the collection of General Davies. — In the 

 female, the head and beneath are yellow, mixed with brown ; fore- 

 head and crown mixed with red; the cheeks are blue, as in the male. 



A. — Length fifteen inches. Plumage in general olive-green ; 

 forehead, just over the bill, crimson ; round the base the chin and 

 cheeks mixed with dull blue ; outer part of the wing blue ; ends of 

 the quills dusky ; on the inner webs of all but the three first a pale 

 spot ; tail cuneiform ; the four middle feathers dull dark olive ; the 

 others the same, ending in dull blue, and fringed at the tips with 

 white ; the first quill three quarters of an inch shorter than the second ; 

 the next four nearly equal ; under coverts fringed at the ends with 

 red. 



This last was met with in the collection of Mr. Thompson, and 

 appears an immature female bird. — I have observed a similar one also 

 itl the possession of Mr. de Fichtel. It appears to answer, in most 

 respects, to the Psittacus flavigaster of M. Temminck, in the Lin. 

 Trans.% but in the latter no mention is made of any blue on the 

 the cheeks and chin. 



34— PENNANTIAN PARROT. 



Psittacus Pennantii, Ind. Orn. i. 90. 



— ^— — gloriosus, splendid Parrot, Nat. Misc. pi. 53. 



splendidus, Lev. Mus. pi. p. 27. 



Perruche a. large Queue, Levail. Perr. ii. pi. 78. 79 young bird. 



Pennantian Parrot, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 61, Id. Suj>. ii. 83. Phill. Voy. pi. in p. 154. 

 White Journ. pi. in p. 174, 175. Shaw's Zool. viii. 410. pi. 56. 



LENGTH fifteen inches. Bill yellowish horn-colour; head, 

 lower part of the back, and all the under parts of the body scarlet ; 

 chin rich blue ; upper part of the back and scapulars deep brown, 



* Vol. xiii. p. 116. 

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