256 PARROT. 



which is fine red ; under the wings the yellow is very pale ; all the 

 prime quills, except two or three of the first, are red on the outer 

 edge, in the middle ; tail rounded, the four outer feathers red from 

 the base to the middle on the inner webs; legs white. 



Inhabits Mexico, or probably Brazil, as M. Salerne mentions 

 one that spoke the Portuguese tongue distinctly, and was very tame. 



203— WHITE-BREASTED PARROT. 



Psittacus melanocephalus, Ind. Orn. i. 128. Lin. i. 149. Gnu Lin. i. 346. Mut. Adolp. 



Ft. ii. p. 45. 

 ■ — Mexicanus, pectore albo, Bris. iv. 297. Id. Svo. ii. 122. 



— — — atricapillus, Mill. Illust. t. 4. A. 



Le Maipouri, Bvf. vi. 250. PL enl. 527. Levail. pi. 119, 120. 

 White-breasted Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 305. Edw. pi. 169. Shaw's Zool. viii. 542. 



SIZE of a Turtle; length nine inches. Bill, cere, and orbits 

 dusky flesh-colour ; top of the head black ; under the eye from the 

 gape a green mark ; cheeks, throat, and forepart of the neck yellow, 

 behind orange ; back, rump, scapulars, and upper tail coverts green; 

 breast and upper part of the belly white ; the lower, sides, thighs, 

 and under tail coverts orange ; quills blue outwardly, within and 

 beneath black ; the first of the lesser quills green, edged with yellow ; 

 the others green ; tail short, rounded, green ; legs cinereous brown. 



A. — The bill in this variety is blackish ; the black crown, and 

 the green mark between the bill and eye the same ; sides of the 

 head and throat olive-yellow ; about the ears dusky; back part of 

 the neck rose-colour, inclining to brown ; breast and belly pale 

 ash-colour ; sides of the body, thighs, and vent yellowish orange- 

 brown ; quills blue, edges fringed with green. A specimen of this 

 last was in the Leverian Museum. 



