PARROT. 14t 



green, with a long tail ; hind part of the head and throat red, but the 

 top and sides of the head blue. If we allow this bird to be the same, 

 it must have been imported into Guiana ; for, according to what has 

 been before hinted, we cannot readily allow of two climates for the 

 same Parrot. — In a set of drawings from China was one of these 

 birds, under the name of Ue-Shek-uang. 



45.— CRESTED RED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus Bontii, Ind. Orn. i. 92. Rail p. 34. Will. p. 81. 



Psitt. Javanicus, Gm. Lin. i. 319. 



Psitt. Javensis cristata coccinea, Bris. iv. 381. Id. 8vo. ii. 146. 



La Perruche huppee, Buf.\\. 160. 



Bontius's small Parrakeet, Will. Engl. 120. Shaw's Zool.vYn. 453. 



Crested red Parrakeet, Gen. Syn; i. 223. 



SIZE of a Lark. Bill grey, cere whitish ; eyes black, placed in 

 bare, silvery white skin ; head crested ; general colour of the plumage 

 scarlet; throat grey; fore part of the neck and breast rose-colour; 

 scapulars and wing coverts red and green mixed ; quills the same ; 

 the tail is long, and reaches ten inches beyond the wings when closed, 

 the two middle feathers scarlet ; the others rose-colour, tipped with 

 blue, and have a mixture of green ; it is also said, that when exposed 

 to the sun, it represents a thousand varieties of shining colours, 

 hardly to be expressed by a painter. 



Inhabits Java, found chiefly in the midland countries, roosting 

 and building on the highest trees ; is garrulous, and learns to pro- 

 nounce some words if kept tame. — These birds fly in companies, 

 and, like other Parrots, make a great noise. 



