PARROT. 263 



sides inclining to blue ; back dark coffee-colour ; rump almost 

 entirely black ; two middle tail feathers green, the lower half red, 

 the others beautiful, with broad black tips. 



Inhabits Brazil ; classed in the Berlin Museum as Psittacus 

 melanonotus. The chief character of this species, only to be dis- 

 tinguished in a fresh state,, is a naked, vermilion-coloured skin round 

 the eye. 



213— LEONA PARRAKEET. 



LENGTH five inches. The upper mandible from the base half 

 way black, the rest pale, the under wholly pale ; body in general 

 and wings green ; crown and nape pale greenish blue ; sides of the 

 head, including the eye, the chin and throat fine pale grey ; round 

 the neck, above the breast, a pale orange yellow collar, bounded on 

 the upper part behind, with an irregular bar of black ; the lower 

 part of the back pale blue ; rump and upper tail coverts deep blue ; 

 tail rounded, the two middle feathers wholly green, the rest crimson 

 for two-thirds from the base, then a bar of black, and finally green ; 

 legs dusky. 



Inhabits Africa, Sierra Leone. In the collection of Mr. H. 

 Brogden. 



214.— BLUE-RUMPED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus Malaccensis, hid. Orn.i. 130. Son. Voy. hid. ii. 212, 

 Blue-rumped Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 66. Shaw's Zool. viii. 554. 



SIZE of the last. Bill violet grey ; irides red ; forehead blue ; 

 head, neck, and upper part of the breast grass green ; rump blue ; 



