S A P ? H I R E - C R 0 W X E D P A R R O QL^ E T . 
The Sapphire-Crowned Parroquet is scarcely 
five inches long ; and, sometimes, much smal- 
ler. It sleeps suspended to the branch of a 
tree by one foot. This appears to have been a 
Cock Bird : for, in the Female, the red colour 
of the throat, and the blue colour of the crown, 
are bo:h wanting ; those parts being of the 
general green colour of the body. 
BufFon, in his account of the Coulicassi, 
which is the native name of the Psittacus Gal- 
gulus Phihppensis, or Philippine Parroquet of 
Latham, accuses Brisson and Linnaeus of hav- 
ing confounded it with Edwards's Sapphire- 
Crowned Parroquet. But, from the description 
given by Buffon himself of his Coulicassi, it 
appears quite as much to resemble Edwards's 
Sapphire-Crowned Parroquet, as the Blue- 
headed Parroquet to which he insists that it 
must be alone referred. 
