ROSE-HEADED RING PARRO- 
QUET. 
This very beautiful bird, which we have 
copied from Edwards, is denominated, by him, 
the Rose-Headed Ring Parroquet. It is the 
Psittacus Alexandri of Linnaeus, but the Psit- 
tacus Erythrocephalus Bengalensis of Gmehn ; 
the Psittacus Bengalensis, of Brisson ; the Ben- 
gal Parroquet, of Albin ; the Little Parroquet, 
with a Rose-Coloured Head and Long Shafts, 
of BufFon ; and the Rose-Headed Ring Par- 
roquet, of Edwards and Latham ► 
We shall extra6l the whole account of this 
Parroquet from Edwards ; who has given by 
much the best description, as well as the best 
figure, extant. 
** This,'* says he, " is a bird of singular 
beauty. The upper mandible of the bill is of 
a buft colour ; hooked at it's point, and angled 
on it's sides : the lower mandible is of a dusky 
or blackish colour. A narrow dusky skin fails 
over the base of the upper part of the bill, in 
which 
