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CLUSIAN PARROT. 



with bright-blue tips : the two exterior tail-feathers 

 blue on the inner webs ; and the vent red, with 

 the margins of the feathers blue. Linnaeus refers 

 to no author for this species, but sets it down as 

 a native of Surinam. I have sometimes been in- 

 clined to suspect that the Clusian or Ruff-Necked 

 Parrot is, in reality, the same bird with this sup- 

 posed Cockatoo. 



CLUSIAN PARROT. 



Psittacus Clusii. P. viridis, capite colloque ferrugineis cceruleo 



undulatis, remigibus rectrihusque caruleo marginatis. 

 Green Parrot, with ferruginous head and neck waved with blue^ 



and quill and tail-feathers edged with blue. 

 Psittacus accipitrinus. P. snhhrachyurus viridis, capite griseo, collqi 



pectoreque subviolaceo vario, remigibus rectricibusqueapicemruleis^ 



Lin. Syst. Nat. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Psittacus elegans Clusii. Ray, syn. 

 Hawk-headed Parrot. Edw.pl. l65. Lath. syn. 

 Perroquet vari^; & P. maille. Buff.ois. PI. Enl. 526. 

 Psittacus violaceus. RufF-necked Parrakeet. Lath. 



This singular and beautiful species seems tp 

 have been first described by Clusius, from a paint- 

 ing sent him in the year 1605 by Jean Plateau, 

 who had kept the bird two years. Its size, says 

 Clusius, was that of a Pigeon, and its head like 

 that of a Hawk in colour: the eyes brilliant, and, 

 the neck covered with parti-coloured feathers,, 

 which, when irritated, it would set up in such a 

 manner as to appear crested: these feathers were 

 of a reddish colour, and on the verge of a most 



