182 PARROT. 



98.— VARIED PARROT. 



Psittacus multicolor, Lin. Trans, xm. p. 119. 



THIS is about ten inches and a half long. Bill black ; plumage 

 in general emerald green ; on the forehead yellow ; across the crown 

 chestnut; on the rump three shades of colour, first pale green, theu 

 deeper, and lastly reddish or chestnut ; belly, thighs, and vent 

 yellow or orange ; on the edge of the wing bright orange ; quills 

 edged with deep blue ; under wing coverts blue ; tail very cunei- 

 form, the two middle feathers five inches long, the shortest two; 

 colour green, with bluish ends ; on the two outmost a bar of black 

 about the middle, on the third a patch of white, and the end of that 

 next to the middle one white. 



A specimen of this is in the Museum of the Linnaean Society. 

 Met with at Spencer's Gulf, on the south side of New-Holland. 



99— RED-TOPPED PARROT. 



Psittacus verticalis, hid. Orn. Sup. xxii. 



Red-topped Parrot, Gen. Si/n. Sup. ii. 369. Shaw's Zool. viii. 418. 



LENGTH eighteen inches. Bill large, blue, the point black ; 

 plumage in general dark green, beneath paler; forehead and middle 

 of the crown crimson ; quills deep blue ; tail long, greenish brown 

 above, brown beneath ; legs brown. 



Inhabits New-Holland ; found at Port Jackson. It appears to 

 coincide with Variety A. of the Pacific Parrot, but is of nearly twice 

 the size. 



