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ROSE-RINGED PARRAKEET. 
Palcsornis torquatus , Vigors. 
VIGNETTE. 
Bright green ; bluish on the tail ; head surrounded with a 
black collar, margined by a ring of rose-coloured red ; 
hinder parts of the head, nape, and cheeks tinged with blue ; 
upper mandible red ; lower blackish. 
Perruche a collier eouleur de rose. Buff. PI. Enl. 551 , male. 
— Psittaca torquata, Brins. Orn. iv. p. 323. — Perraclie a 
collier rose, Le Vaill. i. pi. 22, male, 23, female Palmomis 
torquatus, Via. Zool. Joum. ii. p. 50. 
The graceful form and delicate beauty of this ele- 
gant bird has long rendered it a favourite with those 
who have a predilection for living birds ; and it is 
consequently one of the most common species seen 
in confinement. Its discordant screams, however, 
will always render it a very noisy, if not an objec- 
tionable, inmate of the drawing-room. 
The Rose-ringed Parrakeet is one of the few birds 
of Senegal whose geograpic distribution extends from 
east to west. Of four specimens in very perfect 
plumage now before us, three are from Western 
Africa and one from Madras ; between the three 
first of these, there is no difference whatever in size ; 
