ROSE-HEADED PARRAKEET. 



Psittacus rodocephalus. P. viridis, capiie rostO'Caruleo^ gvla ti 

 torque nigris, reciricibus medm cctrukis apice albidis. 



Green Panakeet, with rose-blue head, black throat and collar, 

 and blue middle tail-feathers with whitish tips. 



Psittacus rodocephalus. Museum Lexerianum, p. 83. Vivarium 

 Naturce, vol. 21. pL 877* 



La Perruche Fridytutah. LevailL pL 74. 



Psittacus Ginginianus. var. /3. Lath, ind, orn, 



A MOST beautiful species, of smaller size, in 

 general, than the Alexandrine Parrakeet, but 

 greatly allied to it in the general distribution of 

 its colours : it differs however in the shape of the 

 tail, the two middle feathers of which extend far be- 

 yond the rest. In length this species seems to 

 vary from twelve to fifteen inches : its plumage is 

 a fme green, paler or yellower beneath: on the 

 shoulders is a small oblique purple-red patch or 

 spot : the upper mandible is bright orange-colour, 

 the lower black: the front and cheeks are of a fme 

 rosy-red, which colour on the remainder of the 

 head gradually declines, and is overcast by a strong 

 tinge of full, yet softened blue, which, perhaps, can 

 be explained by nothing so w^ell as by the appear- 

 ance of that beautiful bloom which shews to so 

 much advantage on the surface of the Orleans 

 plum. From the base of the lower mandible, 

 round the neck, proceeds a narrow collar of the 

 deepest black; immediately beneath which is a 



