PARROT. 135 



That figured by M . Sonnerat, and the one in the pi. enlum. are 

 probably young birds, or females : they are little more than eight 

 inches in length ; and I rather suspect this, from most of the feathers 

 of the body in this bird having the margins violet brown; and the 

 purple band on the fore part of the neck and middle of the belly both 

 wanting ; and we know that many Parrots do not gain their full 

 plumage under three or four years. 



B.— Psittacus janthinus, Gm.Lin.i. 319. 

 Perroquet violet, Fermin. Surin. ii. 175. 

 Violet Lory, Gen. Syn. i. 220, 21. A. 



Bill strong, black ; irides gold colour ; head, and all above, fine 

 crimson ; breast and belly violet ; the head appears as if divided from 

 the body by a line of violet, which passes on each side to the violet 

 on the breast, giving the appearance of the string of an apron ; * 

 scapulars fine blue ; wings and tail green and red ; whether the latter 

 is long or short not mentioned. 



This is said to inhabit the coasts of the Amazon's Country, but 

 it may be doubted, as some are of opinion that no species of Parrot is 

 native of both the Old and New Continent ; and that, even where 

 Islands are at any distance from each other, they are not inhabited by 

 the same sort of birds. f 



* Semble former le Collier d'un Tablier de Cordonnier. — Fermin. 



f M. Sonnerat observes, that notwithstanding Parrots of the same species are found at 

 great distances from each other, on the Continent, yet in the Islands each maintains a spe- 

 cies peculiar to that alone, and not to others of the same group, however short the distance 

 from one to the other.— Sonn. Voy. p. 74. 



