4!23 SULPHUR PARRAKEET. 



piemen t, from a drawing communicated by Ge- 

 neral Davies, taken from the living bird, which was 

 said to have come from the province of Bahar in 

 Bengal. Its length is about ten inches and a half; 

 its habit that of the Ring-Parrakeet, and the tail 

 very long and slender in proportion : the colour 

 of the plumage is a fine jonquil yellow, paler be- 

 neath, but the head of a bright crimson, bounded 

 on the back of the neck by a sea-green collar, nar- 

 rowing as it approaches forwards, where it meets a 

 white one arising from the sides of the lower man- 

 dible : on the shoulders, at the bend of the wing, 

 is an oblong red patch, and the bill and legs are 

 flesh-coloured. 



SULPHUR PARRAKEET. 



Length about fifteen inches : habit that of the 

 Alexandrine Parrakeet: colour uniform pale or 

 sulphur-yellow, rather deeper on the back: bill, 

 legs, and feet pale : described and figured by Le- 

 vaillant, from a preserved specimen in a collection 

 at Leyden : uncertain whether a distinct species, 

 or a variety of some other. 



Monsr. Levaillant reasons well on the subject 

 of the varieties witli respect to plumage which so 

 often take place in the Parrot tribe. All birds in 

 general, he observes^ are subject to become white, 

 as we know from the numerous examples daily | 

 before our eyes 5 even such birds as are naturally 



