162 PARROT. 



a collar ; wings and back grass green ; at the beginning of each 

 wing a large round crimson patch ; tail cuneiform, the two middle 

 feathers grass green, much longer than the others, which are greyish 

 green ; legs dusky grey. 



Inhabits the Philippine Islands. It seems doubtful whether it is 

 distinct in species, or only a variety of the former ones. 



72— MUSTACHOE PARRAKEET. 



Psitt. Pondiceriamis, Ind. Orn. i. 99. Gm. Lin. i. 325. 



Perruche a Moustaches, Buf. vi. 149. PI. ml. 517. 



— — — a pointrine rose, Levail. Pert. i. 64. pi. 31. 



Mustachoe Parrakeet, Gen. Syn.\. 238. Shaw's ZooU viii. 436. pi. 63. 



THE general length of this bird is eleven or twelve inches ; but 

 on account of the tail, some specimens measure as far as thirteen. 

 The bill is red, towards the end yellow ; under mandible nearly 

 black ; the whole head, including the jaws, lilac grey ; across the 

 forehead, from eye to eye, a narrow black streak ; on each side a 

 broad black stripe in the direction of the jaw, like a whisker,* 

 rounded behind ; throat and breast lilac, below it yellowish ; upper 

 parts of the body green, inclining to yellow next the bend of the 

 wing, and middle of the coverts; belly, thighs, and vent pale green ; 

 quills and tail deep green, the two middle feathers of the latter longer 

 than the outer ones by three inches and a quarter, beneath straw- 

 colour ; legs bluish. 



Inhabits India — found about Futtehghur. One figured among 

 General Ilardwicke's drawings, called Munnun-gowry ; in Bengal, 

 Madana, or Madaria. 



* From this circumstance is called by some the Jew Parrakeet. 



