208 PARROT. 



the tail of a moderate length, even at the end, and somewhat paler; 

 legs black. 



Inhabits New-Holland, where it is rare. In the Museum of the 

 Linnaean Society is a fine and perfect specimen, and the only one 

 which has come under our observation. Another is also said to be in 

 the Museum at Paris, from which the figure in a periodical work, 

 now in progress at that place, is taken, It is a beautiful species. 



140.— ASH-COLOURED PARROT. 



Psittacus erithaeus, Ind. Om. i. 109. Lin. i. 141. Mus. Ad. Fred. i. 14: Gm. Lin. i. 



332. Scop. Ann. i. No. 30. Kram. p. 332. 

 Psitt. cinereus, seu subcoeruleus, Raii, p. 31. Will. 76. Id. Engl. 114. Sloan. Jam. 



297. Brown's Jam. 474. Frisch. t. 51. Klein. 25. 13. Gerin. 1. 112. Johnst. 



av. pi. 15. f. 7. 

 Psitt. guineensis cinereus, Bris. iv. 310. Id. 8vo. ii. 126. 

 Perroquet cendre, ou Jaco, Buf. vi. 100. PI. enl. 311. Leuail. pi. 99. — 103. Daud. 



i. p. 92. pi. 4. Sceleton. 

 Usehgraver Papagey, Wirs. Voy. t. 43. 

 Ash-coloured Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 261. Alb. i. pi. 12. S/iaiv's Zool. viii. 486. 



SIZE of a small Pigeon ; length twenty inches. Bill black ; cere 

 and skin round the eye, meally and white ; irides yellowish white ; 

 plumage cinereous, the feathers on the head, neck, and under parts 

 with hoary edges ; those of the rump and lower belly hoary, with 

 cinereous edges; tail bright red, shafts of the feathers blackish ; legs 

 ash-colour. 



Inhabits various parts of Africa ; talks quite as well as the Green 

 Parrot, and much less noisy; chiefly imported into England from 

 Guinea, and is a well-known species : said to sometimes live to 

 one hundred years. 



