PARROT. 215 



148— HAWK-HEADED PARROT. 



Psittacus accipitrinus, Ind. Orn.i. 111. Lin. i. 148. Gm. Lin. i. 345. Gerin. pi. 120. 



Borowsk. Nat. ii. 93. 

 Psittacus varius Indicus, Bris. iv. 300. Id. 8vo. ii. 123. 



elegans Clusii, Raii, p, 33. 11. Shaw's Zool. viii. 482. 

 Perroquet varie, £!{/". vi. 117. 

 Hawk-headed Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 266. jE<Zu\ pi. 165. 



SIZE of a small Pigeon. Length twelve inches; bill and cere 

 blackish ; round the eyes the same, and bare ; irides deep yellow, 

 or hazel ; head, cheeks, and throat brown, each feather marked 

 with a paler streak down the middle ; neck, breast, and belly, 

 purple, the feathers edged with blue; back, rump, scapulars, upper 

 wing and tail coverts fine green ; sides and under lesser wing coverts 

 yellow green ; the greater blue black ; prime quills black, the outer 

 edges and tips blue ; secondaries green ; tail somewhat rounded, five 

 inches and a quarter long, and green ; all except the two middle 

 feathers blue at the tips ; legs dark lead-colour. 



Inhabits the East Indies. — When this bird is provoked, it sets up 

 the feathers round the neck like a ruff. 



A.— Papegai maille, Bvff, vi. 239. pi. 12. PI. enl. 526. 

 Mailed Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. p. 267. A. 



In this the top of the head and round the face covered with narrow 

 long white feathers, striped with blackish ; hind head and sides of the 

 neck fine red brown, edged with blue; breast and stomach shaded 

 with the same, and glossed with green ; upper parts of the body, and 

 tail glossy green ; quills and under the tail brown ; the feathers of 

 the last edged with violet-blue. 



