SAPPHIRE CROWNED PARRAKEET. 
PsiTTACUS GALGULUS. Lift. Syst. i. p. 150. No. 46. 
La petite Perruche de Ma- Briss. Orn. iv. p. 3 8 6. No. 14. 
LACCA. 
La Perruche a tete bleue. Buff. Ois. vi. p. 16 3. 
Sapphire crowned Parrakeet. Edw. vii. p. 2 93. fig. 2. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 3 12. Var. A. 
Petite Perruche de L’Isle Son. Voy. p. 76. t. 33. lowest fig. 
de Lucon. 
1 his subject is the size of life. Edwards has described this bird as coming 
from Sumatra; and according to Sonnerat, it is found in the island of 
Luconia, or Manilla, the chief of the Philippine Islands* 
I he crown of the head of this bird is of a rich sapphire blue ; and 
round the hinder part of the neck is an orange half collar ; the breast and 
rump are red, the rest of the plumage green. 
Osbeck says, he met with this bird in the island of Java, where the 
natives call it Parkicki : il confined in a cage it very seldom whistles, and 
generally becomes quite sullen; it sleeps suspended by one foot, and fre- 
quently hangs itself by its feet in such manner that the beak is turned 
towaids the bottom of the cage, seldom changing this strange situation. 
In their wild state they are particularly fond of the fresh juice of the 
cocoa tree, called Gallon : this subject fed on boiled rice. 
