278 PARROT. 



237 —CRESTED MEXICAN PARRAKEET. 



Psitt. Mexicanus, Ind. Orn.\. 135. Gm. Lin. i. 352. 



cristatus, Bris. iv. 405. Id. 8vo. ii. 154. Germ, t: 131. 



Psitt. collo rubro, plumis in capite purpureas, Klein, p. 25. 

 Avis de Cocho, Psittaci species, vario colore, Seba i. 94. t. 59. 2. 



SIZE of the last ; length seven inches. Bill yellow ; forehead 

 purple, and crested ; orbits blue ; throat yellow ; neck red ; hind 

 head, back, rump, scapulars, breast, belly, sides, and upper and 

 under tail coverts deep red ; thighs light blue ; wing coverts elegant 

 light purple ; quills green, with white edges ; tail fine deep red ; 

 legs purplish-ash. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



238— BLUE-GREEN PARROT. 



Psittacus incertus, blue-green Parrot, Nat. Misc. pi. 769. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill red ; plumage in general blue- 

 green ; scapulars and shoulder beneath red ; quills beneath black ; 

 tail yellow ; legs pale brown. 



A bird of this kind was alive, in the possession of Lady Read, for 

 nine years, but from whence it came was uncertain. 



239— NOOFFY PARROT 



BEING unwilling to pass over what may, on our further acquaint- 

 ance, prove to be a new species, I think right to mention a Blue 

 Parrot, met with by Capt. Lyons in his African Travels;* but of 



* Travels into Northern Africa, p. 157. 



