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100.— YELLOW-CHEEKED PARROT. 



Psittacus icterotis, Lin. Trans, xiii. 120. 



LENGTH ten inches and a half. Bill small, cinereous; top of 

 the head, nape, neck, and all the under parts of the body pale red, 

 shaded on the sides with greenish yellow ; cheeks bright yellow ; 

 plumage in general brown, edged with green ; outer edge of the 

 wing, and base of the quills light blue ; tail cuneiform, the four 

 middle feathers, and base of the others, light green, but these latter 

 are sky blue the rest of their length, with the ends white ; legs long. 



Inhabits New-Holland, chiefly about Port Jackson, on the eastern 

 coast. — In the cabinet of M. Temminck. 



101.— RED-FACED PARROT. 



Le Perroquet Geoffroy, Levail. Perr. pi. 112. 113. 

 Red-masked Parrot, Shaw's Zool. viii. 544. 



LENGTH ten inches. Upper mandible orange red, point black, 

 the under horn-colour ; forehead to the eye, cheeks, and chin scarlet, 

 the feathers rather roughly placed; crown of the head to the eye, 

 and nape for one inch and a quarter, fine purplish bloom-colour, as 

 in the Orleans plumb ; on the upper part of the wing, near the bend, 

 a transverse patch of bright verditer blue, three quarters of an inch 

 long ; under wing coverts blue ; the rest of the bird, and the tail, 

 which is cuneiform, deep Parrot green, rather paler on the throat 

 and belly; legs brown. 



The female, or one supposed to be so, was of the same length. 

 Bill brownish horn-colour; from the forehead to the eye, the cheeks, 

 and chin umber brown ; crown of the head, to the eye, and nape 



