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APPENDIX IV. 
every where of a fuller and deeper tint. This colour occupies the head, 
neck, and upper part of the back. The rump and upper tail coverts are 
of a greyish white ; the wings are black, except the scapulars, and the 
bases of the primary quills, which are white, forming, when the wings 
are closed, very small round spots. The tail is rather more than four inches 
and a half in length, and wedge-shaped ; the four middle feathers are 
wholly black, the eight others are black at the base, and tipped with white, 
which encreases in every pair, so that the exterior feather on each side is 
almost entirely white ; the whole under parts are white, inclining to a 
dirty white on the belly and vent ; on the sides, just above the thighs, 
is a small blotch of a bright chesnut colour : the legs and claws are black ; 
the base of the upper mandible is furnished with five or six strong black 
bristles. This bird appears to come very near to Dr. Latham's description 
of his Collared Shrike, p. 163 ; but it has not the most distant appearance 
of any such mark ; and its length is not above nine inches and a half, 
whereas the Doctor ascribes twelve to his CoUaris, 
No. 5. Psittacus Taranta. Abyssinian Paroquet. 
Size about that of the black wingtd paroquet, length about 6f inches, bill 
blood-red, the whole of the front feathers between the eyes and upper man- 
dible of a bright red, some of these adjoining the crown are edged with green, 
while some, which are very small, surround the eyes, and end in a point be- 
hind, giving the same effect as if the eye were placed in a naked skin, as in 
the genus Perdrix ; the rest of the head, neck, and body, the ridge of the 
wing, lesser coverts, scapulars and tertials are green, deeper above and 
lighter below ; the greater coverts are also green, but deeply tipped with 
black, which colour also occupies the secondaries, so as to form a line directly 
across the wing ; the prime quills are dusky, narrowly edged with green, and 
the fourth and fifth on each side have their tips of a very light brown,' as if the 
colour was there faded ; from the point of the shoulder springs a very long 
black feather, which covers the whole ridge of the wing, and falls upon the 
first quill, in a line with the ends of the greater coverts ; the upper tail 
coverts are of a bright yellow green, and so long as nearly to cover the tail, 
which is rather rounded at the end ; the outer web of the exterior tail 
feather is light green, the interior yellow, which colour gradually increases 
