ROSE-HEADED RING PARROQUET. 
may possibly be right ; but we have not felt 
ourselves authorized to make any departure 
from the colouring of Edwards's figure. 
" This little Parroquet," says BufFon, 
which is not more than four inches long, 
measures twelve if the two long shafts be in- 
cluded. These are blue : the rest of the tail, 
which is not more than two inches and a half 
long, is olive green ; which is, also, the colour 
of all the under side of the body, and even of 
the upper side, where it is only deeper. A 
few small red feathers appear through the 
plumage on the tops of the wings. The head 
is rose-colour, mixed with lilac, interse6led 
and bordered by a black ring ; which, rising 
from the throat, entirely encircles the neck. 
Edwards," concludes BufFon, speaks with 
rapture of this bird : it is termed, he says, in 
Bengal, Fridytutah." 
The rapture of Edwards, thus noticed by 
BufFon, is not very extravagant : it appears to 
consist in his having commenced his descrip- 
tion, as the reader has seen, with observing, 
that *' this is a bird of singular beauty." 
