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supposes, more especially as Parrots are not known to traverse far 

 across the ocean, neither was America at all known at that period. 



A. — Psitt. Alexandri, Mits. Ad. Fr. ii. p. 14: Amcen. Ac. iv. 236. 

 Pbittaca indica torquata, Bris.'w. 326. Jrf.8vo.ii. 131. Gerin. ii. t. 124. 

 Bracelet Parrakeet, Alb. ii. p. 18. 

 Purple-ringed Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. i. 236 — 37. B. Shaw's Zool. viii. 426. 



LENGTH seventeen inches. Bill and hides as in the others ; 

 it differs in having the skin round the eyes brown ; the crown of the 

 head bluish green ; the ring purple ; and the fore part of the neck 

 and breast pale rose-colour. 



Inhabits the East Indies. 



B.— Psittaca borbonica torquata, Bris. iv. 328. t. 27. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 132. 



Permche a double Collier, Bvf. vi. 143. PI. enl. 215 ? Levail. Perr. i. 77. pi. 39. 



Double-ringed Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. i. 236—37. C. Shaw's Zool. viii. 425. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill as in the others ; plumage above 

 green, beneath yellow green ; the ring round the neck rose-colour, 

 broadest before; above this a little mixture of blue green ; under the 

 throat a yellow stripe, which meets the rose-coloured ring ; on the 

 sides of the neck above the ring, a narrow black stripe, passing to 

 the lower mandible ; tail green above, yellowish ash-colour beneath ; 

 the two middle feathers longer than the outer ones by four inches. 



Inhabits the Isle of Bourbon, and other parts of the same latitude 

 both in Africa and Asia. 



71— BLUE-COLLARED PARRAKEET. 



Psittac. Sonneratii, Ind. Orn. i. 98. Gm. Lin. i. 324. 



Perruche a Collier de Lucon, Son. Voy. 80. pi. 43. 



Blue-collared Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. i. 234. Shaw's Zool. viii. 426. 



SIZE of the Alexandrine species. Bill and irides red; head, 

 neck, and belly greyish green; on the neck a light blue band, forming 



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