PARROT. 139 



inner secondaries, marked with a transverse, pale yellow spot about 

 the middle, on the inner web ; tail blue, cuneiform ; the ends of all 

 but the two middle feathers, nearly white ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits New-Holland, and is a common species ; called by some 

 the Rose-Hill Parrot, being met with in that part. 



42— BROWNS PARROT. 



Psittacus Brownii, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 119. 



THIS is smaller than the nonpareil species, being only eleven 

 inches in length. Bill dusky grey ; crown of the head full black, as 

 far as the eyes ; on the cheeks a large patch of white, as in the non- 

 pareil species ; on the upper parts of the body the feathers are black 

 in the middle, with a margin of yellow ; rump, fore part of the neck, 

 breast, and belly yellowish white, fringed with dusky or black ; 

 shoulders and wing coverts blue; under wing coverts also blue; quills 

 dusky, edged with blue ; tail greatly cuneiform, blue ; the two 

 middle feathers deeper in colour, the others growing paler towards 

 the ends, which are nearly white ; legs black. 



Inhabits New-Holland, met with there by Mr. Brown, and pre- 

 sented by him to the Museum of the Linnaean Society. 



43.— BLACK LORY. 



Psittacus noras Guinea, Ind. Orn. i. 91. Gm. Lin. i. 319. 

 Lori de la nouvelle Guinee, Son. Voy. 175. Forr. Voy. 133. 

 Lori noir, Levail. Perr. i. 107. pi. 52. 

 Black Lory, Gen. Syn. i. 221. Shaw't ZooLym. 451. 



SIZE of common Parrakeet. Bill blackish; eye in a brown 

 bare skin ; irides blue, with an inner circle of red brown; plumage 



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