268 PARROT. 



220— CHESTNUT-CROWNED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus Anaca, Ind. Orn.'i. 131. Gm.Lin.i. 349. 



■ Brasiliensis fuscus, Bris. iv. 403. Id. 8vo. ii. 153; 



Anaca, Rati, 358. Will. 78. Id. Engl. 107. ch. 4. No. 8. 



Chestnut-crowned Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. i. 314. Shaw's Zool. viii. 554. 



SIZE of a Lark. Bill and orbits brown ; crown of the head 

 chestnut ; throat cinereous ; neck behind, back, rump, sides, thighs, 

 scapulars, upper wing and tail coverts green ; on the last a pale 

 brown spot ; foreparts of the neck, breast, belly, and under tail 

 coverts rufous brown ; edge of the wing red ; quills green, with sea- 

 green ends ; secondaries green ; tail light brown ; legs blackish. 



Inhabits Brazil and Guiana, at the last rather common. 



A. — In the British Museum is a specimen, with a deep chestnut 

 spot on the back ; no red on the edge of the wing ; tail itself green, 

 the upper coverts only being brown, and the under pale brown. 



221— PURPLE-TAILED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus purpuratus, Ind.Orn.x. 132. Gm. Lin.\. 350. 



— — — — porphyurus, Nat. Misc. i. pi. 16. 



Purple-tailed Parrakeet, Gen. Syn. i. 315. Id. Sup. ii. 95. Shaw's Zool. viii. 547. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill pale yellow ; crown ash-colour ; 

 behind the neck the same, but paler ; middle of the back and wings 

 green ; beneath the body paler ; lower part of the back and rump 

 deep blue ; edge of the wing, and tip of the bastard wing blue ; 

 scapulars brown ; sides over the thighs yellowish ; the two middle 

 tail feathers green tipped with black ; the others deep purplish crim- 



