SAPPHIRE-CROV/NED PARRO 
QUET. 
This bird, we are informed by Edwards,, 
came from the Island of Sumatra, in the East 
Indies ; and was presented to him, well pre- 
served dry, by a gentleman of his acquaintance, 
who brought it from thence to London. " It 
is,'* says Edwards, one of the least and 
most elegant birds of the Parrot-kind that I 
have met with. I have it now in my small 
colle6lion: it is, undoubtedly, a non-descript.'* 
The description given by Edwards, to ac^ 
company his excellent figure, which we have 
copied, is literally as follows — 
*' It's bill, and the skin that covers it's basis,, 
is black: the edges of the upper mandible 
have angles. It has a small space of bare 
skin round the eyes. The head and neck are 
green ; and on the crown of the head is a 
round spot, of a fine blue or sapphire colour- 
On the lower part of the neck, behind, is an 
orange-coloured crescent^, which divides the 
neck 
