186 PARROT. 



105 —ORANGE-BELLIED PARROT. 



Psittacus chrysogaster, Ind. Orn. i. 97. 



Orange-bellied Parrot, Gen. Syn. Sup. 62. Shaw's Zool. viii. 468. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half; breadth twelve. Bill 

 yellowish green ; head, breast, upper parts of the body, and lesser 

 wing coverts dull green ; the greater rich blue on the exterior sides ; 

 the interior dusky, marked with a white spot ; lower belly orange ; 

 tail green, the ends of the four outer feathers yellow; legs greenish. 



Supposed to inhabit New-Holland. — Communicated by Mr. 

 Pennant. It seems to bear affinity with the foregoing ; probably a 

 young bird. 



106— ROSE-FRONTED PARROT. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill dusky, pale flesh-colour; 

 forehead, and round the bill above, obscure rosy buff; cheeks and 

 chin dusky pale green ; plumage above full green, beneath yellow 

 green ; rump and under wing coverts blue green ; quills dusky, 

 edged outwardly with green ; tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers 

 nearly five inches long, and project one inch and three quarters 

 beyond the adjoining ones, which are two inches and three quarters 

 long, the rest graduate in proportion to the outmost, which is only 

 one inch and a half; the two middle are chiefly blue, with pale tips, 

 the others green, the inner webs more or less yellow ; quills long, 

 and reach to where the two middle feathers extend beyond the others ; 

 legs brown, claws pale. 



In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



