BLUE-HEADED PARROT. 
The tail-feathers are of equal length ; the 
middle ones green, gradually becoming blueish 
on the sides : the under side of the tail is of 
the same colour, but deader. The legs and 
feet are of a light ash-colour, covered with a 
scaly skin. The claws are dusky." 
This very beautiful and rare Parrot was dis- 
covered by our ornithologist, in May 1761, 
hanging in a cage at the door of Mr. Haswell, 
a merchant, on the Point, at Portsmouth ; 
** who,*' says Edwards, though I was a 
stranger, kindly accommodated me with a 
room in his house, to take a sketch, and me- 
morandums to finish my drawing. But he 
could not inform me of it's country: only, 
that the ship, by which he received it, came 
last from the Mediterranean ; no part of the 
coasts of which, that I know of, produce any 
of the Parrot- kind. So it rests uncertain from 
whence it orioinallv came, thoun;h I conclude 
this species to be very rare ; as it is the only 
specimen I havfe met with, and not, till now, 
as I think, figured or described." 
It appears to be the Pbittacus Menstruus. of 
Linnxus 
