158 PARROT. 



67— DUBIOUS PARROT. 



Psittacus dubius, Ini. Orn. i. 97. Shaw's Zool, viii. 465. 

 Dubious Parrot, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 62. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill and legs pale horn-colour; lore and 

 space round the eye bare, and of the same colour ; head and chin 

 green ; the whole neck pale rufous ; upper parts of the body and 

 wings green, beneath paler ; outer edge of the bastard wing, and 

 quills blue ; tail cuneiform, but short, yellowish green, the four 

 middle feathers pointed at the ends, where they are blue; the four 

 outer ones tipped with brown. 



A specimen of this is in the British Museum, but from whence 

 uncertain. 



68.— BLACK-NECKED PARROT. 



Psittacus nigricollis, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxii. Shaiv's Zool. viii. 443. 

 Black-necked Parrot, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 90. 



SIZE of the Alexandrine Parrakeet, but with a shorter tail. 

 Bill black ; plumage in general green ; forehead and orbits lemon- 

 colour ; chin, throat, and breast black ; lore white, continuing in a 

 white line on each side of the neck, between the green and the black; 

 belly dusky green ; quills and tail black ; lesser quills wholly, and 

 the edges of some others, blue ; tail cuneiform, the outer margins of 

 the feathers fringed with olive green ; tail black. 



Inhabits Brazil. — In the collection of Gen. Davies. 



