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ROSE-HEADED RING PARRAK.EET, 
La Perruche de Bengale. Bris. Om. iv. p. 3 4 8, No, 66, 
Le petite Perruche 'a tete 
COLEUR DE ROSE 'a LONG 
brins. Buff. Ois. vi. p. 15 4. 
Rose-headed ring'Parrakeet. Edw.Glen. p. 233. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 33 9. No, 3 9. 
Var. A. 
As the genus of parrots is more numerous than any, it will not therefore 
appear extraordinary that several of this family, so remarkable for the bril- 
liancy and great variety of the plumage, as well as their agreeable and en- 
gaging manners, should form a conspicuous part of this most elegant and 
superb Collection. 
According to the Count de Buffon’s arrangement, this subject is of the 
Old Continent, and is a variety of the Blossom-headed Parrakeet. In size 
it measures rather more than ten inches ; the upper mandible is of a pale 
yellow, with a dusky cere, in which the nostrils are placed, the under man- 
dible black; the forehead and cheeks are of a pleasant blush, or rose colour, 
which, as it approaches the hind part of the neck, gradually becomes blue. 
The chin is black; a ring of the same colour encircles the neck, which 
becomes narrow by degrees, and appears to divide the head from the body, 
the upper part of the neck, the back, the rump, the scapulares, and coveits 
of the tail, are of a pleasing green; the throat, breast, belly, thighs, and co 
verts under the tail, a yellowish green, some of the lessei coverts of tne 
wings are edged with a dull red. 
The tail consists of twelve feathers, the two middle ones on the upper 
surface are blue, and terminate in points, the others are tinged with gieen, 
and gradually shorten towards the sides, the legs and claws aie cineiiou 
This was a very pleasing bird, extremely fond of being taken notice 
it never discovered the least inclination to bite 01 injure any stiange 
approached it. 
