PARROT. 269 



son fringed with black ; the ends of all of them nearly square ; the 

 coverts very long, so as to hide the purple tail feathers, when much 

 closed ; legs ash-colour. 



Inhabits Cayenne — several brought from thence differed in size ; 

 some had the purple tail feathers green for one-fourth from the tip, 

 and the two middle ones dashed with purple down the shafts. 



222— GREY-HEADED PARROT. 



Psittacus canus, Ind. Orn.\. 132. Gm. Lin.i. 350. 



Madagascariensis, Bris. iv. 394. t. 30. f. 2. 7J.8uo.ii. 151. 



Perruehe a tete grise de Madag. Buf. vi. 171. PL enl. 791. 2. 



Grey-headed Parrot, Gen. Syn. i. 315. Shaw's Zool. viii. 550. Nat. Misc. pi. 425. 



SIZE of a House-Sparrow. Length five inches three-quarters ; 

 bill grey; plumage green, beneath yellow-green ; head, throat, and 

 forepart of the neck grey, inclining to green ; tail rounded, with a 

 bar of black near the end; legs hoary. The female has a plain green 

 head, otherwise like the male. 



Inhabits Madagascar, and probably the Isle of Mauritius.* 



A. — Length four inches and a half. Bill small, the upper man- 

 dible crimson, the lower black ; plumage dusky green, brighter on 

 the wing coverts, beneath paler ; quills darker, approaching to olive ; 

 tail much rounded, and crossed with a dusky black bar near the end; 

 or what appears as such, from each feather having a black crescent, 

 forming a bar when the tail is spread ; from the base to the black bar 

 the feathers incline to yellow ; legs pale ash-colour. 



A drawing of this is among others in the collection of Mr. Dent, 

 probably taken from a small specimen of the female. In the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Bullock is a fine and perfect specimen. 



* If the same with that mentioned by M.St. Pierre, who says, a Green Parrakeet "with 

 a grey head, as large as a Sparrow, and not to be tamed.-^See Voyage to the Mauritius, 

 English Edition, 1775. 



