THE SPLENDID PARROT. 



PSITTJCUS GLORIOSUS. SHAW. 



PLATE 2. 



This beautiful bird exceeds most of its congeners 

 in the splendour and elegant contrast of its colours. 

 In the Regne Animal^ it is ranked among the 

 Maccaw Parrakeets. It is a native of New 

 Holland, and its size is about equal to that of the 

 common Ring-Parrakeet. 



The head, back, breast, abdomen, crissum, and 

 tail coverts, are of a beautiful sanguine red, which 

 is darkest on the back, and somewhat paler on the 

 lower parts. The back feathers, from the auchenium 

 to the commencement of the tail coverts, are black, 

 being broadly margined with red ; the gula, the 

 smaller wing coverts, middle wing coverts, the 

 lateral tail feathers, and upper half of the primary 

 quills, are of a shining, vivid cobalt blue, which 

 becomes deeper towards the middle, and is slightly 

 tinged with green in certain lights, the lower half of 

 the latter wing of a deep clove-brown ; the majores, 

 or greater wing coverts, and the intermediate tail 



