RING PARROQUET. 
Parroquet, adds that " these birds were both 
brought alive to London in one of our East- 
India Company^ ships, The -first, WiU 
lughby says, is the Psittacus of the ancients ; 
and the only one known in Europe from the 
time of Alexander the Great to the age of 
' Nero. The Blue-Headed/' concludes Ed- 
| wards, " is the only one I have seen of it's 
kind ; and, I believe, no figure or description 
of it has been before given. I drew them both 
from the living birds. There is frequently 
brought from India another species of the 
Ring Parroquet, which differ hardly any thing 
: from what is here described ; except in mag- 
nitude, which does not exceed that of a 
Blackbird, and in wanting the red spot on the 
wing." 
As we do not by any means approve of call- 
I ing the larger birds of the Parrot kind, either 
Parroquets or Parrakeets, we should incline 
to name the Psittacus Alexandri the Ring- 
I Parrot, and the bird last mentioned by Ed- 
wards the Ring Parroquet, 
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