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107 .— PRASINE PARROT. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill brownish flesh-colour ; 

 plumage above green, beneath grass green ; quills deep blue, with 

 green edges ; bastard wing wholly blue ; irides dark ; orbits dull 

 white ; legs pale. 



In the same collection with the last. — The tail is deep green, 

 cuneiform, two inches and a half long, but much mutilated, from 

 having been kept in a cage. 



108— ABYSSINIAN PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus Taranta, Abyssinian Parrrakeet, Salt's Trav. App. xlvi. and p. lv. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill deep crimson ; forehead 

 fine scarlet, passing in a fine streak, surrounding the eyelids; general 

 colour of the plumage green, paler beneath ; lesser wing coverts, 

 and outer ridge of the wing, as far as the back, the greater, and 

 second quills black, with a bluish gloss in some lights, forming a 

 broad space down the middle of the wing ; under wing coverts the 

 same ; greater quills blackish or dusky, lightly fringed outwardly 

 with green ; tail slightly cuneiform, pale green, the two middle 

 feathers ending, for three quarters of an inch, in black; but in the 

 others forming a bar near the end, farthest off on the outer feathers, 

 the ends of all pointed ; the upper tail coverts reach near three-fourths 

 on the tail ; legs dusky. 



A specimen among Mr. Salt's birds ; said to be the only sort seen 

 in Abyssinia ; most numerous about the Pass of Taranta, in March 

 and October. 



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