Guilding's Parrot. 



Psittacus Guildingii, Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 80, 1836. 



The specimens upon which Mr. Vigors originally founded this beautiful species of Parrot, 

 were contained in the collection of the late Rev. Lansdown Guilding, which was transmitted to this 

 country after his decease, and the greater portion of it purchased by the Zoological Society of 

 London, in whose museum one of the specimens of this bird still exists. 



The branch upon which the bird is represented as resting is that of a cultivated fruit ( Annonct 

 reticulata ), which attains the height of forty or fifty feet ; it is called by the Mahrattas " Ram Thul" 

 and was copied from one of Colonel Sykes' drawings. 



Habitat, St. Vincent. 



The crown of the head of this bird is whitish ; the back of the head and cheeks are yellow ; 

 the occiput and ears are blue ; the neck is green ; the back and lesser wing-coverts are brown ; the 

 greater wing-coverts, bronze green ; a band of deep orange crosses many of the primaries and 

 secondaries, which forms a mere spot when the wing is closed; the terminal portions of the 

 primaries are a brownish-black ; while in the corresponding parts of the secondaries the outer webs 

 are dark blue, and the inner webs black ; the tertiaries are brownish-green ; all the feathers of the 

 neck and back are edged with black ; the basal portion of the tail is orange ; on the upper surface 

 it is succeeded by a broad band of blue, shaded with green ; but on the under surface this band is 

 green, and the terminal portion, which is about one-third, is yellow ; the under surface of the body 

 is brown ; the thighs are green ; bill, white. 



Total length, seventeen and a half inches. 



