PARROT. 159 



69— ALEXANDRINE PARRAKEET. 



Psitt. Alexandri, Ind. Orn. i. 97, Lin. i. 141. Gtn. Lin. i. 321. Scop. Ann. No. 26. 



Bor. Nat. ii. 94. Spalowsek. Voy. iii. t. 8.* 

 Psitt. cubicularis, Hasselq. It. ii. 35. Id Engl. 196. 



torquatus macrourus, Raii. 33. Will. 77. 1. 16. Id. Engl. p. 1 15. 



Grande Perruche a Collier rouge vif, Buf. vi. 141. PI. enl. 642. Levail. Perr. i. 62. 



pi. 30. 

 Perrocello, O/m. t/c. t. p. 24. 

 Ring-Parrakeet, Edw. pi. 292. 

 Alexandrine Parrakeet, Gen. St/n. i. 234. Id. Sup. ii. p. S6. Shaw's Zool. viii. 423. 



LENGTH fifteen inches. Bill red ; plumage in general green, 

 paler beneath ; throat black, passing behind to meet a crescent of 

 red at the back of the neck ; at the bend of the wing a purplish spot ; 

 tail longer than the body, green fringed with blue, and pale yellow 

 beneath, in shape greatly cuneiform ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits the Southern parts of Asia, also the Island of Ceylon. 

 Hasselquist says, that it lives in ^Ethiopia, and brought to Cairo for 

 sale ; has a shrill and piercing note, and will learn to articulate 

 some words : its chief food said to be the seeds of the safflower.t — 

 Sonnini affirms, that this species is brought in numbers from Nubia 

 to Cairo ; and that the Arabian name is Dourra. 



A. — Among the drawings of Gen. Hardwicke, done in India, isf 

 a variety, measuring in length twenty-one inches and a half ; the 

 tail being longer in proportion ; X in this the lower mandible is 

 dusky ; eyelids broad, rough, crimson ; at the base of the neck a 

 crimson ring, met on each side by a crescent of black, taking rise at 



* In Spalowski's figure, the ring round the throat is very broad, with no red on the 

 throat or breast. 



t Carthamut tinctorius Lin, X " n one drawing the tail was of such a length as to 

 measure in all two feet. 



