132 PARROT. 



or black edged with scarlet ; lesser wing coverts pale bluish green ; 

 ends and interior sides of the quills dusky, marked on the inner webs 

 with a white spot; sides deep blue; tail very long; the middle 

 feathers dusky ; the exterior and upper part of the interior sides blue, 

 the others fine green ; tips of all but the two middle ones white ; legs 

 dusky. 



The female has the upper part of the neck and body greenish ; 

 top of the head red, and a patch of the same under the eye ; chin and 

 throat blue; lower part of the neck and breast red, as also the rump 

 and neck ; middle of the belly dusky green ; tail dark, blue fringed 

 with chestnut ; shoulders blue ; the rest of the wing the same, but 

 darker. 



A. — Pennantian Parrot, Phil/. Bot. Bay. pi. p. 154. 



Length sixteen inches. Bill horn-colour ; head, neck, under 

 parts, and rump crimson ; back black, the feathers margined with 

 red ; inner wing coverts black, the outer pale blue, making an oblique 

 band on the wing ; quills and tail dusky, edged with blue ; the three 

 outer tail feathers, from the middle to the tip, hoary blue ; legs grey. 

 Native name — Wellaat. 



B.— Psittacus elegans, Lid. Orn. i. 89. Gm. Lin.i. 318. 

 Beautiful Lory, Gen. Syn. i. 217. 



Length fifteen inches. Bill yellowish brown ; round the base 

 below blue; head, neck, rump, and under parts crimson ; back brown; 

 the feathers margined with dull red ; and between the two colours a 

 line of green ; beyond this the margins grow narrower ; and on the 

 rump wholly red ; shoulders pale blue, with a little mixture of red ; 

 wing coverts brown ; many of the outer ones, and the bend of the 



