PARROT. 181 



97— CRIMSON-FRONTED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus australis, Lid. Orn. i. 104. 



■ ■ concinnus, Nat. Misc. iii. t. S7. 

 Perruche a bandeau rouge, Leva.il. Perr. i. 99. pi. 4: 

 La Maracana a tete rouge, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 284 ? 

 Pacific Parrot, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 87. Shaw's Zocl. viii. 419. Phill. Bot. Bay. pi. 



p. 115. 

 C rimson- fronted Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 87. Nat. Misc. iii. t. 87. 



SIZE of the Pacific Parrot; length nine inches. Bill brown, 

 tip red ; plumage deep brown ; forehead to the crown, and base of 

 the bill all round, fine crimson ; from the eve on each side descends 

 a patch of the same ; hind part of the crown, and back of the neck 

 half way fine blue, with here and there a yellow streak ; shoulders 

 of the wings yellow ; legs dusky. In the Naturalist's Miscellany 

 the forehead only is crimson, and a streak of the same below the eye ; 

 the shoulders are not yellow. 



A. — This varies, in having the crimson patch below the eye much 

 larger, and a ring of yellow round the neck, at the bottom of the 

 blue nape. 



B. — In this the lower part of the neck behind is reddish, instead 

 of yellow ; shoulders, across the wings, tinged and mixed with red ; 

 sides of the breast reddish ; the whole nape olive brown ; tail red at 

 the base within. — In the possession of General Davies. 



C. — Length nine or ten inches. Bill black, tip red ; irides light 

 orange ; ears crimson ; neck behind olive bnfF; body, wings, and 

 tail green, paler beneath ; under wing coverts green ; tail cuneiform, 

 all but the two middle feathers reddish within at the base, for 

 two-thirds of the length ; legs dusky. 



