PARROT. 167 



The female like the male, but with a pale violet head, without 

 the brown in front, and the yellow collar less conspicuous. 

 Inhabits India, and to be considered as a new species. 



76.— RACKET-TAILED PARROT— Pl. XXIV. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill lead-colour, under mandible and 

 tip black ; plumage in general green, paler beneath ; at the nape a 

 deep crimson mark; beneath this, the rest of the neck behind 

 purplish blossom-colour; across the back, between the wings, a 

 ferruginous clay-coloured crescent ; lesser wing coverts inclining to 

 blossom-colour; lesser quills purplish lilac without, and green within; 

 tail green, the two middle feathers exceed the others by two inches 

 and a half, and as far as this excess takes place, are not webbed, but 

 expand again at the ends, into an oval of about half an inch ; all 

 the other feathers green, one-third from the end dark ultramarine blue, 

 but the ends, for seven-eighths of an inch beneath, verditer blue ; 

 legs black. 



Native place uncertain. — Description and figure taken from a 

 specimen, in the possession of Mr. Latham, of Compton Street, 

 London. 



77— YELLOW-WINGED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus virescens, Ind. Om. i. 100. Gm. Lin. i. 320. Shaw's Zool. viii. 458. 



cayanensis, Bris.iv. 334. t.27. 2. Id. Svo.ii. 133. 



Perriche a ailes variees, Buf. vi. 259. Levail. Perr.i. 115. pl.57. 

 ■ a tache souci, Levail. Perr.i. 117. pl.58. 59. 



Petite Perruche verte de Cayenne, Pt. enl. 359. 

 Le Maracana aux ailes jaunes, Voy. d'Azara, ii. No. 282. 

 Yellow-winged Parrakeet, Gen.Syn.'i. 244. 



LESS than a Blackbird ; length eight inches and a quarter. 

 Bill and cere whitish; plumage greenish, paler beneath; greater 



