GREY-HEADED PARROT. 177 
long as the tail ; the first quill is almost equal with 
the second and third, which are the longest ; these 
three are very much sinuated, or rather angulated, 
on their inner weh, in a manner it is difficult to ex- 
plain by words, and wholly unlike any other bird 
with which we are acquainted : the tail-feathers are 
truncate, hut the shaft mucronate. There is an ex- 
quisite figure of the male, and a very good one of 
the female, in Le Vaillant’s beautiful work. 
General colour above green, very bright on the 
back, rump, and tail-covers, hut brownish in the 
wings. The whole of the head is covered with a 
cap of cinereous grey, dark above and pale beneath ; 
the neck above and below is rich green, and this 
colour is continued in a peaked stripe a little way 
down the middle of the breast ; the breast, body, 
and all the under plumage is bright orange-yellow 
hut the thighs are green ; wings and tail, blackish, 
margined with green ; bill and feet black ; nostrils 
naked, large, round ; cere large. 
Total length, about 9 inches ; bill, jx, ; wings, 6 ; 
tail, from the base, 3. 
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