PARROT. 



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wing pale blue ; quills dusky, deeply edged with blue ; secondaries 

 the same, margined as the back ; tail cuneiform, seven inches long, 

 greenish brown, the two middle feathers green down the shafts, and 

 blue on the outer margins, and, except the two middle ones, have the 

 ends whitish ; legs dusky. 



Another of these was only twelve inches long ; bill lead-colour, 

 with a yellow point ; head, neck, and breast dull crimson ; upper 

 parts of the body, wings, and tail, green ; quills dusky, edged with 

 blue ; tail cuneiform, only four inches long ; legs black. 



In one greatly similar the bill was pale ; forehead pale red ; cheeks 

 pale blue ; nape, and neck to the breast butf colour ; part of the neck 

 and all the back waved with dusky, but the ground of the back 

 greenish ; wings blue ; shoulders next the back black ; quills dusky ; 

 from the breast to vent pale greenish ash-colour, with a few trans- 

 verse crimson markings on the former, and a few red ones on the 

 vent ; tail as the other, but shorter ; legs pale ash-colour. This last 

 is probably a young bird. 



35— SULPHUR-HEADED PARROT. 



SIZE of the Pennantian Parrot. Head, and beneath, pale sul- 

 phur yellow ; forehead crimson ; cheeks blue as in the last mentioned ; 

 body above pale green ; the middle of the feathers brown ; shoulders 

 blue; quills the same; tail cuneiform, blue, not ditFering from the Pen- 

 nantian Parrot ; the two middle feathers green ; bill black, end pale. 



The female has the head and breast yellow, mixed with brown ; 

 forehead and crown mixed with red ; blue on the cheeks, as in the 

 male. 



Inhabits New South Wales. In the Museum of the Linnaean 

 Society. 



