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GREY-HEADED PARROT. 
Psittacus Scnegatcnm, Auct. 
Above green ; head entirely grey ; throat green ; body orange ; 
tail even, the tips truncate and macronatc. 
Psittacus Senegalus, Lin. Auct T.e Perroquet a tete grise, 
Le Vaill. Parr. ii. pi. 116 male, 117 female. — Petite Per- 
ruche du Senegal, Buff. PI. Erd. 288. 
It is a remarkable circumstance in the geography of 
the Parrot family, that while flocks of near forty 
species abound in all the tropical regions of South 
America, the opposite coast of Western Africa, 
laying under the same latitudes, and possessing a 
vegetation almost equally luxuriant, should yet be 
so thinly inhabited by these birds, that the two 
we here describe are the only species yet known 
to inhabit Senegal. A third has been found by 
Itiippell in Northern Africa ; these, with the com- 
mon Grey Parrot of the Coast of Guinea and the 
Aurora Parrot of South Africa, are almost, in short, 
the only examples, of the family yet discovered in 
the whole range of the African continent. 
The structure of this species, which is one of the 
more common birds of Senegal, has some pecu- 
liarities worth noticing. The wings are nearly as 
