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PSITTACID^. 



Blossom-headed Parrakeet. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. ii.p. 164. — Per- 

 ruche a tete rouge de gingi. B?{f. PL Enl. 264. — ^Rose-headed 

 ring Parrakeet. Edvo, pi. 239. — Perruche a collier noir. Le 

 Vaill. Per. pi. 45. var. fi. — Jonquil parrakeet. Shatv, v. viii. 

 p. 429? Lath. Gen. Hist. v. ii. p. 143. pi. xxiii? 



Inhabits India. Length eleven inches : beak 

 reddish ; head red, with a shade of light-blue, chiefly 

 at the hind head ; chin black, narrowing into a 

 slender line from the corners of the mouth to the 

 hind head ; beneath the black another line of pale- 

 green, both making a kind of collar: the rest of the 

 plumage green, inclining beneath to yellow : on the 

 wing-coverts a dull red spot : tail six inches and a 

 quarter long, green above : margined within with 

 yellow, the outer-feathers shorter than the middle by 

 four inches : legs grey. 



Sp. 8. Pa. Bengalensis. ZooL Journ. ( Vigors.) v. ii. p. 54.— 

 Psittacus rodocephalus. Shaw, v. viii. p. 434. pi. 62. — India. 



Sp. 9. Pa. Pondicerianus. Zool. Journ. ( Vigors.) v. n.p. 54. — Psit- 

 tacus mystaceus. Shaw, v. viii. p. 436. p/. 63. — Psittacus tri- 

 maculatus. Shatv, v. viii. p. 457- — Javan Parrakeet. Shaw, 

 V. viii. p. 426. — Purple-ringed Parrakeet. Shaw, v. viii. p. 426. 

 —India, Java, &c. 



Sp. 10. Pa. Barrabandi. ZooL Journ. ( Vigors.) v. ii. p. 56. 



Pa. viridis, sincipite guldque aureo-fiavis ; fascid pectorali macu- 

 Usque Jemoralibus rubris. 



Green Palaeornis with the sinciput and throat golden-yellow ; a 

 band on the breast and spots on the thighs red. 



Psittacus Barrabandi. Swain. ZooL Illust. v. i. pL 59. — Scarlet- 

 breasted Parrot. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. ii. p. 121. 



Inhabits New Holland. Length fifteen inches : 

 beak red : forehead to the middle of the crown yellow: 

 behind the yellow, on the crown a shade of blue : 



