140 PARROT. 



black with a blue tinge, having at once the softness of velvet, with a 

 metalline gloss ; tail long, cuneiform, but not in a great degree ; it is 

 black above, and dull red beneath ; legs blackish. 

 Inhabits New Guinea. 



44— LORY PARRAKEET. 



Psitt. ornatus, Ind. Orn. i. 91. Lin. i. 143. Gm. Lin. i. 324. Bor. Nat. ii. 94. 



Psittaca indica, Brit. ir. 366. Id. 8ro. ii. 14'2. 



Avis paradis. orientalis, Seba i. pi. 60. f. 2, 3. Klein, p. 64. 



La Perruche Lori des Indes, Buf. vi. 145. PL enl. 552. 



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



Variegated Parrakeet, Shaw's Zool. viii. 416. pi. 60. 



Lory Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. i. 221. Edw. pi. 144. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill pale orange ; cere brownish ; eyes 

 in a bare ash-coloured skin ; irides orange red ; upper part of the 

 head fine black blue, behind a crimson crescent, the points towards 

 the eyes ; on each side the head, behind, and above the eyes, a fine 

 blue spot ; and beyond this another larger, of a yellowish colour ; 

 on the sides of the head, under the eyes, the throat, fore part of the 

 neck, and breast scarlet, edged with blackish green ; hind part of 

 the neck, back, rump, scapulars, upper wing and tail coverts, belly, _ 

 thighs, and sides green ; on each side of the neck a longitudinal 

 yellow stripe ; the feathers on the middle of the back and sides of 

 the belly tipped with yellow ; quills green on the outer, and dark 

 brown on the inner webs ; tail three inches and a half long, cunei- 

 form, the two middle feathers green, the others the same, the ends 

 yellow, beneath reddish ; legs cinereous. 



Inhabits the East Indies. — Mr. Bancroft* mentions the Lory 

 Parrakeet of Edwards, being in Guiana, and describes it as yellow 



* Hitt. Guian. p. 162. 



