PARROT. 137 



39— VARIEGATED LORY. 



Psittacus variegatus, Ind. Orn. i. 90. Gm. Lin. i. 319. 

 Variegated Lory, Gen. Syn. i. 220. Shaw's Zool. viii. 464. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill dusky; plumage in general deep 

 scarlet ; lower part of the neck, the beginning of the back, and round 

 the breast, also the belly and vent, fine purplish blue, inclining to 

 black on the lower part of the belly ; the upper part of the wings 

 wholly red ; quills dusky at the ends, but yellow on the inner webs ; 

 the wing when lifted up, appears beneath to have one-third from the 

 shoulder red and yellow mixed; the middle yellow, and the ends 

 dusky; the tail slightly cuneiform ; the feathers green; inside near 

 the base reddish ; the outer edge near the ends blue. 



Inhabits the East Indies ; the three last have affinity with three 

 mentioned by Pernetty.* 



40— GROUND PARROT. 



Psittacus formosus, Ind. Orn. i. 103. 



■ terrestris, or Ground Parrot, Mus. Lev. 249. t. 53. Nat. Misc. vii. pi. 228. 

 Zool. of New-Holland, ix. pi. iii. 

 Perruche ingambe, Levail. Perr. i. 66. pi. 32. 



Black-spotted Parrakeet of Van-Diemen's Land, D' Entrecast. Voy. ii. 47. pi. x. 

 Ground Parrot, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 26. Shaw's Zool. viii. 454. pi. 66. 



RATHER smaller than the Pennantian Parrot. Bill black ; 

 plumage in general green above, each feather banded with black and 

 yellow ; crown and nape marked with numerous, longitudinal, black 

 streaks ; the forehead orange-colour, approaching to scarlet ; under 



* Voy. aux Malouines. Vol. i. p. 177. 

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