176 PARROT. 



90. RED-SHOULDERED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus discolor, hid. Orn. Sup. p. xxi. 



La Perruche Latham, Levail. pi. 62. and Perr. Banks, Id. pi. 50 ? 

 Red-shouldered Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 90. Phill. Voy. p. 269. White's Journal. 

 pi. p. 2C3. Shaw's Zool. viii. 466. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill half an inch long, brownish horn- 

 colour; on the forehead a bright scarlet list half an inch broad ; at 

 the base of the bill, below the scarlet, bright yellow to the eye; on the 

 crown a purplish blue spot, about the size of a sixpence ; cheeks 

 bluish verditer-colour ; round the lower mandible a narrow scarlet 

 list, and under the chin for one inch edged with a narrow tinge of 

 yellow, especially beneath the chin and throat ; spreading on each 

 side of the neck as it descends towards the shoulders, at least three- 

 fourths towards the neck behind ; this yellow belt is variegated with 

 bright scarlet ; the general colour of the bird is deep Parrot green ; 

 the prime quills black brown, edged with bright yellow ; scapulars 

 next the back, half pink half green ; bastard wing blue-black ; front 

 of the upper wing coverts bright mazarine blue ; bend of the wing 

 blood-red ; under parts from the throat bright yellow ; tail greatly 

 cuneiform, chestnut-red at the base, and dull blue at the end ; the 

 two middle feathers are five inches long, the outmost scarcely two ; 

 legs brown, or horn-colour. 



Inhabits New South Wales. 



A variety of this has the forehead and chin deep scarlet, but this 

 colour does not quite reach to the eye ; tail ferruginous at the base, 

 and blue towards the end, as in the former. 



In a pair of these at Mr. Harrison's, one sex has the sanguine 

 mark at the bend of the wing, mottled with blue-black ; front, 

 throat, and down the middle of the neck to the breast crimson ; on 

 the breast a mixture of crimson ; bastard wing and outer coverts blue ; 



