1 70 PARROT. 



round the eye, arid the base, of the lower mandible chocolate, with 

 a mixture of green ; on the ears a pale dull patch of buff; beneath 

 from the chin brown, the feathers margined all round with whitish, 

 but on the breast with pale yellowish buff; upper part of the back 

 and wings green, lower part and rump sanguineous ; belly and vent 

 paler green than above ; on the middle of the belly a large patch of 

 blood-colour; bend of the wing crimson ; under wing coverts pale 

 green ; tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers five inches long, the 

 outmost scarcely three, all of them fine reddish chestnut, margined 

 outwardly with green, the shafts dusky, or black. 



Inhabits South America. A fine specimen from Berbice, in the 

 collection of Mr. Mac Leay, from which the above description is taken, 

 and is known there by the name of Boeretingting. It was also in the 

 collection of General Davies, from Cayenne. On comparing the 

 description of the two last birds so many things appear similar, as to 

 lead us to think that they are varieties of each other ; but the wave- 

 breasted is a smaller bird ; however, in my specimen the lower half 

 of the back and rump are of a brownish red, which does not appear 

 in the pi. enlum, or in Button's account of the bird. 



81 —WILSONS PARRAKEET. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill very long and hooked, and 

 the upper mandible measuring almost two inches, the under three 

 quarters, colour dusky ; plumage in general greenish ash, inclining 

 to brown, and clouded here and there with orange, as in the cross- 

 bill, but the edges of the feathers of the back dun colour ; all the 

 under parts of the body mixed yellow and dull orange ; rump dull 

 red ; under wing coverts dull yellow ; thighs brown ; the quills reach 

 almost to the end of the tail, which is somewhat, but not greatly, 

 cuneiform ; both quills and tail are brown, the former marked on the 

 inner webs with five or six whitish bars ; legs dusky ; toes very long. 



