PARROT. 211 



142— SOUTHERN BROWN PARROT. 



Psittacus Nestor, Ind. Orn. i. 110. 



■ Meridionalis, Gm. Lin. i. 333. 



■ Australia, Mus. Lev. pi, in p. 87. 



Southern brown Parrot, Gen. Syn.i. 264. Shatc's Zool. viii. 522. 



LENGTH sixteen inches. Bill very large, and hooked, blue- 

 black; round the eyes a bare flesh-coloured skin; top of the head 

 pale ash-colour; round the lower mandible, throat, fore part and 

 sides of the neck, chestnut red, the middle of the feathers paler ; 

 over the eyes rusty yellow ; hindhead, and back of the neck deep 

 ash-colour and pale mixed ; back, wings, and tail greenish ash- 

 colour, somewhat glossed with copper ; the margins of the feathers 

 darker; from the breast to the vent chestnut red, deeper on the 

 margins ; the tail is of the same colour beneath, and pretty even at 

 the end, at which part all the feathers are brown, and the tips of the 

 shafts stand out in a point ; inner webs of the quills barred beneath ; 

 legs black. 



Inhabits New Zealand. 



143— LEVAILLANTS PARROT. 



Psittacus Levaillanti, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. xxiii. 



Le Perroquet a franges souci, Levail. pi. 130. 131. 



Damask Parrot, Shaw's Zool. viii. 523. 



Levaillant's Parrot, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 95. Nat. Misc. xxi. pi. 909. 



THIS is nearly the size of the Ash-coloured Parrot; length 

 twelve inches. Bill large, whitish ; back part of the orbit of the 

 eye bare and dusky ; head, neck, and breast olivaceous grey brown, 

 or rather olive yellow, and grey brown mixed; belly, rump, upper tail 



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