160 PARROT. 



the under jaw ; bend of the wing, and the coverts blue ; on the latter 

 a long patch of crimson ; quills blue ; tail very long and cuneiform ; 

 legs flesh-colour. 



The female has neither the ring on the neck, nor any black on 

 the chin, and the bare space round the eye narrower. 



Inhabits India, met with at Futtehghur in February, known 

 there by the name of Lehberry. These birds are sometimes in great 

 numbers, and particularly fond of ripe fruits ; and although beauti- 

 ful, are for the most part accounted unwelcome guests. 



70— ROSE-RINGED PARRAKEET. 



Psittaca torquata, Bris. iv. 323. Id. 8vo. ii. 130. Gerin. ii. t. 123. 



La Perruche a Collier couleur de Rose, Buf. vi. 152. PL enl. 551, Levail, Perroq. i. 



497. pi. 22, 23. 

 Rose-ringed Parrakeet, Gen; Syn. i. 235. 37. A. Shaw's Zool. viii. 425. 



IN this species the upper mandible is red, the under black ; irides 

 yellow ; eyes placed in a flesh-coloured skin ; plumage pale green ; 

 throat black ; round the neck a light rose-coloured collar, inclining 

 to violet at the hind head ; tail nine inches long, much cuneated, the 

 two middle feathers exceeding the outer ones by seven inches ; legs 

 ash-colour. 



Inhabits Africa. These birds do not get the ring round the neck 

 the first year at least, as we have observed several to be quite plain in 

 that part when first imported, and gained a narrow ring at the next 

 year's moult, growing wider and more conspicuous according to the 

 age of the bird. 



This, or as some think the last, is supposed to be the Parrot men- 

 tioned by Aldrovandus,* and well known to the Greeks and Romans ; 

 and if so, cannot be a native of any part of America, as Brisson 



* Psitt. torquatus macrourus Antiquorum, Aldr. An. i. p. 678. tab. in 679. 



