PARROT. 223 



159.— DUSKY PARROT. 



Psittacus sordidus, Ind.Orn.'x. 127. Lin. i. 148. Gm. Lin.i. 343. 



novae Hispaniae, Bris. iv. 303. Id. 8vo. ii. 124. 



Le Papegai brun, Bitf. vi. 246. 



Dusky Parrot, Gen. Syn.i. 304. Edio. pi. 167. 



SIZE of a small Pigeon ; length ten inches. Bill yellowish at 

 the base, and black in the middle of the upper mandible, the rest of 

 it red ; cere blackish ; orbits naked, pale cinereous ; irides dark hazel ; 

 top of the head dusky ; sides and behind greenish ; throat blue ; 

 back dusky ; rump and tail greenish ; under tail coverts fine red ; 

 beneath from throat to vent cinereous brown ; wing coverts and lesser 

 quills green, but some of the latter with yellowish borders; greater 

 quills green; tail a little rounded, the outer edge blue; legs lead- 

 colour ; claws black. 



Inhabits New Spain, but not common. 



A. — Length ten inches. Bill wholly dusky red ; crown and sides 

 blue, with a mixture of green ; the rest of the neck green, mixed 

 with blue on the throat and breast ; back bright olive green ; breast 

 and beneath the same, but paler; many of the feathers of it obsoletely 

 barred, near the end, with a pale reddish tinge ; quills green ; tail 

 even, green, the outer margins of the three outer feathers fine blue, 

 and dull red for more than halfway from the base; under tail coverts 

 fine red ; legs dusky. 



A specimen of this is in the collection of Lord Stanley. 



