PARROT. 217 



150 —CRIMSON AND BLUE-COLLARED PARROT. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill stout, brown ; head brown, mixed 

 with greyish white; the crown white; upper parts of the neck, body, 

 wings, and tail fine green ; at the lower part of the neck behind, a 

 crescent of deep crimson, each feather margined with glossy blue ; 

 this band passes forwards on each side to the breast, which, as well 

 as all the under parts, is of the same colour as the band, but paler, 

 and without gloss ; and indeed, the belly may rather be called blue 

 and rufous, than crimson ; quills black ; tail rounded, dusky ; the 

 three outer feathers margined with blue ; legs brown. 



Inhabits Cayenne, from which place we have seen three specimens, 

 one in the Leverian collection, a second at Gen. Daviess, and a third 

 in my own possession. 



There seems great affinity between several of the last numbers, 

 but I will not be positive of their being varieties — perhaps at different 

 periods of age. 



151— RUFF-NECKED PARROT. 



Psittacus violaceus, Ind. Om.i. 112. Gm. Lin.'i. 337. 

 Psitt. Aquar. Lupiarum insulse, Bris. iv. 302. Id. 8vo. ii. 124. 

 Perroquet de la Guadaloupe, Du Tertr. Antil. ii. 250. t. p. 246. 

 Criq a tete violette, Buf. vi. 233. 

 Ruff-necked Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 268. 



SIZE of a Fowl. Bill and eyes bordered with flesh-colour ; 

 head, neck, and belly violet, with a slight mixture of green and blue, 

 and changeable like the breast of a Pigeon ; back brownish green ; 

 greater quills black, the others yellow-green and red ; on the wing- 

 coverts two spots, in shape and colour of roses. 



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