150 PARROT. 



Mr. Wilson* observes, that young birds of the preceding year are 

 generally destitute of yellow on the head and neck, till the middle of 

 March, being then wholly green, except from the cheeks, which are 

 orange red in them as in full grown birds ; about the middle of March 

 the yellow begins to appear in detached feathers among the green, 

 varying in different individuals ; build in companies in hollow trees ; 

 the favourite food said to be cockle burs — fond of large sycamores, 

 roosting thirty or forty together in the hollow of one — are killed for 

 food by the inhabitants, but their flesh is not well flavoured. 



As a proof of these birds being in very great numbers M. Levail- 

 I ant says, he has seen above 6000 skins of the Carolina species sent 

 for sale to a dealer in feathers at Paris, for the purpose of ornament- 

 ing dresses. 



57— CRIxMSON-VENTED PARROT. 



Psittacus erytliropygius, Ind. Orn. i. 94. Gm. Lin. i. 322. 

 Crimson-vented Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 229. Shaw's Zool. viii. 443. 



SIZE large. Bill dusky ; head and neck yellow, the rest of the 

 body palish green ; tail cuneiform ; vent crimson ; quills, and end 

 of the tail feathers blue. 



Supposed to come from the East Indies, or China. A specimen 

 was in the Leverian Museum, but without any history ; we have, 

 however, seen a drawing of this bird from China, and may fairly 

 conclude it to be a native of Asia. 



* Amer. Orn, 



