PARROT. 251 



192— NEW-GUINEA GREEN PARROT. 



Psittacus viridis, Ind.Orn.i. 125. Gm.Lin.i. 344. 

 Grand Perroquet de la nouv. Guinee, Son. Voy. 74. t. 108. 

 New-Guinea green Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 296. 



SIZE of the common Amazon's Parrot. Upper mandible the 

 colour of orpiment ; the under black; irides fire colour; plumage in 

 general light grass green ; greater quills indigo blue ; the lesser 

 carmine red beneatjh. 



Inhabits New Guinea. 



193,-EASTERN PARROT. 



Psittacus orientalis, Ind. Orn. i. 125. 

 Eastern Parrot, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 64. 



SIZE of the Amazon's Parrot. Bill red, with a yellow tip ; 

 plumage in general green ; ridge of the wing and prime quills pale 

 blue ; towards the end of the tail black and blue, the end yellow ; 

 legs yellow. 



Inhabits India — Lady Impey. 



194— DUFRESNES PARROT. 



Perroquet Dufresne, Levail. Perr. pi. 91. 

 Dufresne's Parrot, Shaw's Zool. viii. 513. 



SIZE of the Mealy green Parrot. Plumage in general full 



green ; just above the base of the upper mandible, from eye to eye, 



an orange-yellow bar; cheeks and sides of the neck tinged with blue ; 



ridge of the wings, the outer edges, and tips of the larger quills 



deep blue ; the inner marked in the middle with a broad orange bar ; 



bill pale brown ; legs ash-colour. 



Inhabits Cayenne. 



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