PARROT. 207 



138.— RED AND WHITE PARROT. 



Psittacus erythroleucos, hid. Orn.i. 109. Lin.\. 144. Gm.Lin.i. 332. Rail, p. 31. 



Will. 76. Id.Engl.lU.S. Bor. Nat. ii. p. 90. 5. Shaw's Zool. viii. 484. 

 Cacatua alis et cauda rubris, Bm. iv. 214. J<2. Svo. ii. 102. 

 Kakatoes a ailes et Queue rouges, Buf. vi. 96. 

 Red and White Parrot, Gen.Syn.i. 260. 



SIZE of a large Fowl; length seventeen inches. Bill black; 

 head, throat, neck, back, sides, thighs, scapulars, upper and lower 

 wing coverts, dirty white, or pale ash-colour ; lower part of the back, 

 rump, and lower tail coverts, quills, and tail, vermilion red; legs 

 blackish. 



Aldrovandus is the first who mentions this species, but not the 

 place it inhabits: he adds, that it is only inferior in size to the 

 Maccaw, and that it has a shortish tail. We learn from the late Dr. 

 Hill, that Lord Petre was in possession of a similar bird, that the 

 general plumage was pale silvery grey, almost white, not having any 

 tinge of dusky lead-colonr, or bluish ; lower part of the back, rump, 

 and larger wing feathers beautiful scarlet; tail short, the colour of 

 the body, and hardly reaching beyond the tips of the wings. We 

 have never seen this bird, nor the figure of it on paper. 



139— ROSE-COLOURED COCKATOO. 



THIS is about the size of the Ash-coloured Parrot. The bill 

 moderate in size, and yellowish ; head, neck, and beneath the body 

 fine deep rose-colour ; the feathers of the head elongated, full, forming 

 a spacious crest, and those which compose it are paler than those on 

 the rest of the body ; the remaining part of the plumage light grey ; 



