SUNG PARROQUET. 
"■ The Ring Parroquet has the top and 
sides of the head green. A black line pro- 
ceeds from the lower mandible of the bill, 
downward a little way ; then parts into two 
lines, which turn backward on the sides of the 
neck, forming a black line round the neck, 
which almost meets behind. On the hinder 
part of the neck, above this black ring, the 
feathers are blue; and, under the black line, 
passes a bar of red feathers. The body, both 
above and beneath, is green : though some- 
what lighter on the under side ; the back, and 
upper sides of the wings, being darker, and 
of a blue-green. The quills, and covert- 
feathers next above them within-side the winp's, 
are of a mouse-colour ; the lesser coverts, of a 
light blueish green ; and it has a red spot on 
the lesser covert-feathers without-side the 
wings. The upper side of the tail is of a 
blue-green; the under-side, of a dusky-yellow, 
or olive-colour: the middle feathers measured 
thirteen inches ; they gradually shorten toward 
the sides." 
^Edwards, who blends his account of the 
Ring Parroquet with that of the Blue-Headed 
Parroquet, 
