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ALEXANDRINE RING-PARRAKEET. 
Palcsomis Alexandra. Vigors. 
PLATE IL 
Pala-ornis Alexandri, Vigors, Zool. Jour. vol. ii. p. 49 
Woglcr, in Abhand, &c., p. 500' Psittacus torquatus 
Wacrourus antiquorum, Aldrov. Aves. vol. i. p. 678 ; 
Icon. p. 679 Psittacus Alexandra, Linn. Lath. &c 
Perruche a Collier des Isles Maldives. Luff. PI. Enl. 
p. 642 Le Grand Perruche & collier, Le Vaill. Hist, des 
Per. pi. 30 Alexandrine Parrot, Lath. Syn. vol. i. 
p. 234, No. 37. — Ring-Parrakeet, Edwards, pi- 292 
Alexandrine Parrakeet, Shaw's Zool. vol. viii. p. 423. 
In the figure of this elegant bird, our readers are 
introduced to a well known and favourite species of 
modern times, and which is generally supposed to 
have been the first, and by many the only one. known 
to the ancient Greeks, having been discovered during 
the expeditions of the Macedonian conqueror, by 
whose followers it was brought to Europe from the 
ancient Tabropane, now the Island of Ceylon. At 
all events, it is evident from the concurrent testi- 
mony of various ancient authors, that whatever par- 
