LESSER DUSKY PARROT. 
We have ventured to call this the Lesser, 
ind not the Little, Dusky Parrot, as it is named 
ly Edwards ; because, in fa£l, though it be 
ather less than the Dusky Parrot, or Psittacus 
Jordidus of Linnasus, it is by no means a very 
mall bird of the Parrot race, as the word Lit- 
le might seem to imply. In the Linnaean 
ndex to Edwards, furnished by Linnaeus him- 
elf, this bird is called Psittacus Spectrum, as 
^ell as the Great Black Cockatoo, which 
tands next to it in tlie list ; a mistake, as we 
pprehend, either in transcribing or printing, 
ndeed, Gmeiin gives this Little Dusky Parrot 
f Edwards, as the Psittacus Purpureus of the 
.innsean system ; and it is the Violet Popinjay 
f BufFon. 
Edwards — who, in describing the Dusky 
arrot, had said that " It is about the bigness 
f the Common Blue Pigeon bred in our dove- 
ouses" — tells us, that his Little Dusky Par- 
)t, also, " was about the size or quantity of tbe 
lue, Wild, or Dove-House Pigeon, or ratlier 
less. 
