236 PARROT. 



B. — Psitt. Martinic. cyanoceph. Bris. iv. 251. Id. 8vo. ii. 112. 

 Papegai a ventre pourpre, Buff. vi. 242. PI. enl. 548. 

 Ash-crowned Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 281. 88. C. 



Length eleven inches. Bill, cere, and orbits white ; plumage in 

 general green, most of the feathers with blackish margins ; forehead 

 white ; top of the head cinereous blue ; under the eyes the same ; 

 bend of the wing white ; bastard wing and feathers adjacent blue ; 

 quills black, some of them margined with blue, and others with 

 green ; the two middle tail feathers green, the next yellow on the 

 inside half-way down from the base, near the shaft reddish, the end 

 green ; the next three red like the last, but on both sides ; the outer 

 one red, with the end yellowish green, and the exterior margin blue; 

 legs grey. 



Inhabits Martinico. 



178— GERINIS PARROT. 



Psittacus Gerini, Ind. Orn. i. 119. Gerin. Orn. i. pi. 109. 

 White-faced Amazon's Parrot, Shaw's Zool. viii. 500 ? 

 Gerini's Parrot, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 93. 



SIZE of the last. Bill and legs pale ; head for the most part 

 white ; body green ; lesser wing coverts, some of the middle quills, 

 and tail feathers red. 



Inhabits Brazil. 



179— WHITE-CROWNED PARROT. 



Psittacus albifrons, Ind. Orn.i. 119. Mus. Carls, fasc. iii. t. 52. 

 White-crowned Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 281. Shaw's Zool. viii. 519. 



LENGTH ten inches and a half. Bill pale yellow ; cere and 

 orbits cinereous ; forehead to the middle of the crown white, the rest 



