PARROT. 143 



ones green ; tail cuneiform ; the six middle feathers yellowish green, 

 the three outside ones the same, the outer margins blue; legs reddish. 

 Inhabits Angola, and probably the East Indies. — Albin observes, 

 that it learns to talk. — In Frisch, the skin round the eye is red. 



48— JONQUIL PARRAKEET— Pl. XXIII. 



Psittacus Narcissus, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. xxi. Shaw's Zool. viii. 427. 

 Jonquil Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 83. pl. 123. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill flesh-colour ; general plumage fine 

 jonquil yellow, paler beneath ; crown of the head and cheeks crimson; 

 and a large spot of the same at the bend of the wing, next the 

 shoulder ; round the neck, beneath the crimson, a collar of white, or 

 very pale, changing to greenish at the hind head ; tail cuneiform, 

 and half as long again as the bird ; the two middle feathers pale 

 bufF-colour ; the others more or less yellow, most so nearest the base ; 

 quills pale yellow, paler within ; legs flesh-colour. 



Inhabits India, — a living specimen was in possession of Miss 

 Hunter, of Greenwich : brought from the Ramghur Hills, in the 

 Province of Bahar, in Bengal : known only by the common name 

 of Toto. — General Davies. 



49— CRIMSON AND YELLOW PARROT 



SIZE of the Tabuan species. Bill deep orange, margined with 

 black ; under mandible black ; head, neck, and under parts fine 

 crimson ; quills white ; vent buiF yellow, the feathers margined with 

 crimson ; tail cuneiform, pale yellow. 



