258 PARROT. 



robust; and are likewise of a heavy, dull nature. Buffon adds, that 

 the feathers seem closer set, appearing as if artificially fastened to the 

 body, especially on the breast and under parts. 



A.— Le Nenda)', Voy. d'Azdra. iv. No. 279. 



In this the head is black, having on the middle of the crown 

 a tinge of red; neck before pale blue; thighs scarlet; tail above 

 half yellowish, half blue, beneath dusky; quills dusky at the tips; 

 greater coverts green, changing into blue at the ends ; lesser and 

 middle ones, and rest of the body yellowish green ; bill and space 

 round the eye black ; legs olive. 



Two of these were taken at Yaguarou, in Paraguay, and sent 

 into Spain : they had the action and cry of the Hooded Parrot, but 

 the hides were red. Supposed to be a variety of that bird. 



205 —SENEGAL PARROT. 



Psittacus Senegalus, Ind. Om. i. 128. Lin. i. 149. Gm. Lin. i. 347. Bris. iv. 400. 



t. 24. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 153. 

 Perroquet a tete grise, Buf. vi. 123. PL enl. 288. Levail. pi. 116, 117. 

 Senegal Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 307. Shaw's Zool. viii. 544. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length eight inches. Bill ash-coloured ; 

 cere and orbits blackish ; irides fine yellow ; plumage above green, 

 passing forwards to the breast ; head elegant ash -colour ;* quills and 

 bastard wing the same, with the outer edges green ; under parts of 

 the body orange, deeper on the sides ; tail deep ash-colour, margins 

 greenish ; legs reddish ash-colour. 



* In the head of one I observed a slight reddish fringe on the edges of the feathers, 

 scarcely perceivable on first inspection. 



